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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Blandford Forum and other places called Blandford in Dorset (Blaneford in Domesday Book), probably named in Old English with blǣge ‘gudgeon’ (genitive plural blægna) + ford ‘ford’.

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