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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Cumbria and Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in the Lake District named Blaisdell, from the Old Norse byname Blesi (from blesi ‘blaze’, ‘white spot’), or from the same word used in the sense of a white spot on a hillside, + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.

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