Last Name BLASE

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Meaning	The son of Blaze. St. Blaise was the patron saint of wool-combers, and his festival (Feb. 3) was faithfully commemorated in Yorkshire. A full-sized effigy of the bishop is carved in the principl entranceto to the Bradford Exchange. As a font-name Blaise, or Blaze, just managed to survive the Reformation. Gil Blas has immortalized the name in lilterature.

Origin	English, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	17,924 (2000 US census)	34,214 (1990 US census)

Count	1,438 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.16%, or 1354 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.32%, or 19 total occurrences, as black,
0.97%, or 14 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.35%, or 5 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.18%, or 17 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.02%, or 29 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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