Blackley — Family Name, Records and Arms

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What Blackley means

It is easy to miss Blackley in an index if you only search for Blakeley. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “dark clearing”.

Records show Blackley as one of the forms Blakeley took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Related forms: Blakly and Blakely. According to the 2010 US Census, the Blackley surname had 1,008 bearers.

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