Blain Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

There is no single Blain family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Meaning of the name

Anyone researching Blain should also look under Blaine. The family name meaning is “Saint Blane”, the same as for Blaine.

Blain drops the “e” of Blaine, a shortening that clerks often made. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. About 4,764 people in the United States were recorded as Blain in 2010, placing it 7,025 on the national list. Between 1891 and 2000, 6,303 babies born in France were registered as Blain, with the most births in 1961–1970.

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