Last name: BLIGH
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BLIGH : This last name is indexed 20,693 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BLIGH : 1: English (of Norman origin): variant of Blythe with Anglo-Norman loss of th.2: Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Ó Blighe ‘descendant of Blighe’ probably a Gaelicized form of the Old Norse byname Blígr (from blígja ‘to gaze’).3: Cornish: nickname from Cornish blyth ‘wolf’. Compare Blethen.
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