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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly Lancashire) : from a diminutive of Blunt.
  • Swedish : ornamental name from Blund (of unexplained origin) + the suffix -ell, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.

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