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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Gaelic : Lean
  • Old English : Source of a river

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Source of a river
  • Irish : Thin, lean

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Blain

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : Anglicized form of the Gaelic personal name Bláán, a diminutive of blá ‘yellow’. This was the name of an early Celtic saint.
  • Scottish : shortened form of MacBlain.
  • Scottish and northern English : nickname for a person suffering from boils, from Middle English blain ‘blister’, ‘pustule’.
  • Variant of Blin, a reduced form of French Belin. Possibly also a reduced form of Abelin, a pet form of Abel.
  • A Blain or Abelin from the Saintonge region of France is recorded in Contrecoeur, Quebec, in 1681. Lajeunesse is documented as a secondary surname in 1721.

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