Boy name origins & meanings
- English : Knife, sword; glory
How Popular Is The Name Bladen
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Bladon in Oxfordshire or Blaydon in Tyne and Wear (formerly in County Durham). The first takes its name from a pre-English name (of uncertain origin and meaning) of the Evenlode river; the second is named with Old Norse blár ‘cold’ + Old English dūn ‘hill’.