Blind Name Origin and Family Crest

Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Blind.

Family crest and blazon

Sharing the Blind name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Surname origin

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Blind, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

In the 2010 US Census, 835 Americans gave Blind as their last name (rank 28,552). That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. French birth records list 1,023 children named Blind between 1891 and 2000. Blind sounds close to Bland, so it can help to search both. Get the complete Blind report, with a museum-style coat of arms.