The name Blythe ( or ) derives from
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
''bliþe'' ("joyous, kind, cheerful, pleasant"; modern ''blithe''), and further back from
Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic languages, Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Proto-Germanic eventually developed from ...
''*blithiz'' ("gentle, kind").
People
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Blythe (given name)
Blythe is a primarily feminine given name from an Old English surname with the same spelling meaning "cheerful", "joyful", "pleasant", dating further back from the Proto-Germanic
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) ...
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Blythe (surname)
Blythe is an English surname.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 58.1% of all known bearers of the surname ''Blythe'' were residents of the United States (frequency 1:32,907), 24.0% of England (1:12,271), 6.1% of Australia (1:20,745), 3.3% of C ...
, including a list of people with the surname Blythe
Places
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Blytheville, Arkansas
Blytheville is one of two county seat, county seats of and the largest city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. It is approximately north of West Memphis, Arkansas, West Memphis. The population was 13,40 ...
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Blythe, California
Blythe () is a city in eastern Riverside County, California, United States. It is in the Palo Verde Valley of the Lower Colorado River Valley region, an agricultural area and part of the Colorado Desert along the Colorado River, approximatel ...
, United States
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Blythe, Georgia
Blythe is a city, mostly in Richmond County, Georgia, Richmond County and partly in Burke County, Georgia, Burke County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a populati ...
, United States
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Blythe Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Blythe Bay
Blythe Bay () is an anchorage at the southeast side of Desolation Island, lying north of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The bay is bounded by Craggy Island to the northeast, Desolation Island to the northwest, the ...
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Blythe River, river in New Zealand
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Blythe River (Tasmania)
The Blythe River is a perennial river located in north-western region of Tasmania, Australia.
Location and features
The river rises near Rabbit Plain on the slopes of Mount Tor and flows generally north into Emu Bay in Bass Strait, at Heybr ...
, river in Tasmania, Australia
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River Blithe, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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River Blythe
The River Blythe flows through the English Midlands from central Warwickshire, through the Borough of Solihull and on to Coleshill in north Warwickshire. It runs along the Meriden Gap in the Midlands Plateau, is fed by the River Cole and ...
, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Blythe Hill Fields, London, United Kingdom
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Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Other
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Blythe (doll)
Blythe is a fashion doll, about 28 cm (11 inch) tall, with an oversized head and large eyes that change color with the pullstring, pull of a string. It was created in 1972 and was initially only sold for one year in the United States ...
See also
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Blyth (disambiguation)
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Blithe (disambiguation)
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Blyth River (Northern Territory)
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River Blyth (disambiguation)
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