Skip to main content

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by a dark (boundary) stone, from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’, ‘dark’ (Old English blæc) + stān ‘stone’, or a habitational name from a place named with these words, for example Blaxton in South Yorkshire.

Join the Family

Your partner in parenting from baby name inspiration to college planning.

Subscribe