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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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