Blake

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

English name

Transferred use of the surname deriving from either

1) Old English blæc = 'black' (see also Blakkr)

or

2) Old English blac = 'bright', 'shining', 'pale', 'wan' (related to Blanca)

Related Names

Blake

♂

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Blakesson

Female

Blakesdóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Blake
Genitive:	Blakes

- Finnish
Nominative:	Blake
Genitive:	Blaken
Partitive:	Blakea

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Blake
Accusative:	Blake
Dative:	Blake
Genitive:	Blakes

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Blake
Genitive:	Blakes

- Swedish
Nominative:	Blake
Genitive:	Blakes

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 9 September 2021

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		46	95	6	11	40	84
Finland		n.a.	49	0	0	n.a.	49
Denmark		19	n.a.	5	n.a.	14	n.a.
Norway		14	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	14	n.a.
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Blake.