as a Last Name
- 10,989
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Blakely
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of various places in northern England and the Scottish Borders called Blakeley, named with Old English blæc ‘black’, ‘dark’ (see Black) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. The Scottish surname may also have absorbed some cases of Blakelaw, from a place in the Borders named with Old English blæc ‘black’ + hlāw ‘hill’.
| 2,829th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,989
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Carolina
- has the most people named Blakely per capita
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