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First name origins & meanings:

1. English: Perfect joy
2. Old English: Joyous

First name variations: Blis, Blisa, Blisasa, Blisse, Blys, Blysa, Blyss, Blyssa, Blysse, Blithe, Bligh, Blythe

Last name origins & meanings:

1. English: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle English blisse ‘joy’. Compare Blythe 1.
2. English (of Norman origin): habitational name from the village of Blay in Calvados, France, recorded in 1077 in the form Bleis and of unknown origin. The village of Stoke Bliss in Worcestershire was named after a Norman family de Blez, recorded several times in the county from the 13th century.
3. German: nickname for a cheerful person, from Middle High German blīde ‘happy’, ‘friendly’. Compare 1.
4. Americanized spelling of French Blois.

This name appears in the following lists: Virtues