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blair Name Meaning and History

Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain’, ‘field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár).

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blair Family Facts

Distribution of blair Families in the US in 1920
Number of blair families
 429-856
 144-428
 1-143
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