Blare Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

Blare is a branch of the Blair name tree. It is a place-based name: “From Blair, "plain, field"”.

Blare coat of arms

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Blare, so the heraldry linked to Blair is a starting point, not an automatic right.

A variant of Blair

Records show Blare as one of the forms Blair took over time. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Blaire and Blear.

The 2010 census count for Blare in the United States was 207, good for rank 89,403. Want more than a summary? See the Blare family name pack.