Blaise (name)

Blaise is a French and English personal name and surname (from Greek Βλάσιος, the name of Saint Blaise).

From the Latin nomen Blasius, itself from the adjectiv blaesus, meaning "lisping", "stammering". The Greek Βλάσιος comes from the adjective βλαισός, meaning "bent", "distorted" or "crooked". The correlation between both etimologies is uncertain.

List of people with the given name Blaise
Fictional people
  • Blaise, in some accounts, a master of Merlin in Arthurian legends. In Malory's version appears to Merlin to warn him of Nimue's mischief
  • Blaise Jeannot Andrieux, a character from the Wild Cards series of books
  • Blaise Zabini, minor Slytherin character in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series

List of people with the surname Blaise
Fictional people

Spellings

The following forenames are related to the forename Blaise:

See also
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