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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : metonymic occupational name for a lead miner or lead worker, from Middle High German blī ‘lead’.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of German Blei (Yiddish blaj), due to replacement of the -ei or -aj with Russian -ej.

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