Blane Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Search old registers for Blane and you will soon meet Blaine too. In origin, the name means “Saint Blane”. Before spelling was fixed, Blaine was also written Blane. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Blain.

According to the 2010 US Census, the Blane surname had 985 bearers. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Bolan.

Arms linked to Blaine and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Blane report, with a museum-style coat of arms.