Blain

Where Blain comes from

The dictionaries list Blain as a given name — a male given name transferred from the surname — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1884
    Debut at its peak, #971
    #971 among boys with 5 babies — the first year it was published, and still its best.
  2. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Blain turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.