Blundell
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps from a nickname for someone with fair hair (Middle English blonden ‘fair-haired’)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/blɐndɛɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blundell is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DMDominica1 in 37K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 193K
- ESSpain1 in 944K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,727 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps from a nickname for someone with fair hair (Middle English blonden ‘fair-haired’).
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blundell counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
1,727 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Blundellb. 1790GBBritish obstetrician (1790–1878)
- Reginald Blundellb. 1871AUAustralian politician (1871-1945)
- Denis Blundellb. 1907NZ12th Governor-General of New Zealand from 1972 to 1977
- Heather McKayb. 1941AUnot in their usual nameAustralian squash player
- Tom Blundellb. 1942GBBritish biochemist
- Richard Blundellb. 1952GBBritish economist
- Jude Watsonb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican novelist
- Christine Blundellb. 1961GBmake-up artist
- Mark Blundellb. 1966GBBritish racing driver
- Hannah Blundellb. 1994GBEnglish footballer (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,179 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 53 | #43,026 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 53 | #42,563 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #41,677 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #160,277 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 5 | #68,618 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #64,658 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #225 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blundell mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps from a nickname for someone with fair hair (Middle English blonden ‘fair-haired’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Blundell?
- A machine transcription gives /blɐndɛɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Blundell have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Blundell, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blundell.
- Where is Blundell most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Blundell is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Blundell?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,727 people named Blundell in 2010, about 1 in 193 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blundellThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blundell”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.