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Blair is a Scots-English-language name of Scottish Gaelic origin.

Key facts

Surname.name
Blair
Surname.gender
Unisex
Surname.language
Scots-English
Surname.languageorigin
Scottish Gaelic
Surname.origin
Anglicisation of blàr
Surname.meaning
"plain", "field", "meadow", "battlefield"
Surname.region
Scotland
Surname.variant
Blaire, Blare

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
family name
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different from
Blair
native label
Blair
writing system
Latin script
Soundex
B460
Cologne phonetics
157
Caverphone
PL1111
Commons category
Blair (surname)
language of work or name
English language
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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • Scottish clan
  • People with the surname
  • A–E
  • F–M
  • N–Z
  • People with the given name
  • A–E
  • F–M
  • N–Z
  • Fictional characters
  • Surname
  • References

Blair is a Scots-English-language name of Scottish Gaelic origin.

The surname is derived from any of the numerous places in Scotland called Blair, derived from the Scottish Gaelic blàr, meaning "plain", "meadow" or "field", frequently a battlefield.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blair” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.