Blakeney
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Blakeney by the numbers
Blakeney was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 5 babies in 1989, making it a 1980s name.
What we can tell you about Blakeney
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Blakeney. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Blakelydark or pale meadow; a place name used as personal name1,244 in the US (2017)
- Blakeleedark or pale meadow; a modern feminine form of Blakely63 in the US (2017)
- Blakleyblack meadow; modern spelling of Blakeley33 in the US (2017)
- Berkeleybirch tree meadow or clearing133 in the US (2017)
- Blakelyndark lake; a modern feminine form of Blake85 in the US (2017)
- Blaikley10 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Blakeney
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