Meaning & origin
What it means
Blaney goes back to Welsh blaenau, meaning “tip, point, apex.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1919. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Blaney through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 18
- 5 boys · 13 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #13,475 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 13,475 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,460 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Blaney’s family of names
In English usage, Blaney as a surname has a related form in Blayney.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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