The Blind surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 835 people carried this name — #28,552 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 357,100 people counted. That is up 17% from 715 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Blind surname
English, German, and Jewish/Yiddish surname, all related to the adjective blind.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Blind» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 428 people named Blind.
18 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 27 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
71 people named Blind live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 38 people named Blind live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
266 people named Blind is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Blind,
with a public archive behind them.
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Karl Blind 1826–1907 · writer -
Mathilde Blind 1841–1896 · writer -
Georges Blind 1904–1944 · firefighter -
Nikolaus Blind 1926–1972 · painter -
Rudolf Blind 1846–1889 · painter
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Adolphe Blind 1862–1925 · magician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Blind.
- Blesch 149 · U.S. census
- Blessing 5,263 · U.S. census
- Blevin 167 · U.S. census
- Bley 1,260 · U.S. census
- Bleyer 264 · U.S. census
- Blier 428 · U.S. census
- Bloch 4,817 · U.S. census
- Blocher 1,733 · U.S. census
- Block 21,717 · U.S. census
- Blois 230 · U.S. census
- Blom 3,103 · U.S. census
- Blomme 296 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Blind is.
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