Blakeney Family History
Blakeney Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so named in Gloucestershire and Norfolk or from Blackney Farm in Stoke Abbott Dorset. The first two are named with Old English blæc dative blacan ‘black dark’ + ēg ‘island promontory’; the third is from Old English blæc + hæg ‘enclosure’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022