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Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Dutch : from the medieval personal name Blas, a derivative of Blasius.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a pale person, from Yiddish blas or modern German blass ‘pale’.

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