Name: Blake
Gender: Male
Usage: Blake is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Blake are in general originating from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Blake is: Dark, Pale blond one or dark.
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Numerology of the first name Blake: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Blake is ranked on the 475th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 1330800 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.019% of the population. The name Blake has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Blake for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Blake is a surname or a given name which originated from Old English. Its derivation is uncertain; it could come from "blac", a nickname for someone who had dark hair or skin, or from "blaac", a nickname for someone with pale hair or skin. Another theory is that it is a corruption of "Ap Lake", meaning "Son of Lake".
Blake was the name of one of the 14 Tribes of Galway in Ireland. These Blakes were descendants of Richard Caddell, alias Blake, who was involved in the Norman Invasion of Ireland in 1169. As such a long present foreign name it became known as de Bláca in Irish.
The origins of the name Blake are also considered to be Old Norse, first appearing in Yorkshire, England, possibly derived from the word Blaker, referring to a village and a former municipality of Akershus county, Norway (east of Oslo).
Blake often refers to the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake (1757–1827) or to the contemporary figurative artist Blake.
English: transferred use of the surname, which has two quite distinct etymologies. It is both from Old English blæc black and from Old English blāc pale, white; it was thus originally a nickname given to someone with hair or skin that was either remarkably dark or remarkably light. It is now quite popular as a male given name.
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