Given name & surname
Blaydon
“blue”
Blaydon is a surname, possibly from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Blaydon possibly goes back to Old English blāw, meaning “blue.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Blaydon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 30
- 30 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include a sample rank of No. 87,676 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Blaydon’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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