Blakeney

Family name origins & meanings

• English : habitational name from places so named in Gloucestershire and Norfolk or from Blackney Farm in Stoke Abbott, Dorset. The first two are named with Old English blæc, dative blacan ‘black’, ‘dark’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘promontory’; the third is from Old English blæc + hæg ‘enclosure’.