The name Blythe ( or ) derives from

Old English Old English (, ), 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 was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

''bliþe'' ("joyous, kind, cheerful, pleasant"; modern ''blithe''), and further back from

Proto-Germanic Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages. Proto-Germanic eventually developed from pre-Proto-Germanic into three Germanic branc ...

''*blithiz'' ("gentle, kind").

People

Blythe (given name) Blythe is a feminine given name from an Old English surname with the same spelling meaning "cheerful", "joyous", "pleasant", dating further back from the Proto-Germanic word blithiz, meaning "gentle", "kind". Variants of the name include Blighe, Bl ...

, including a list of people named Blythe *

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

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 *

Blythe, Georgia Blythe is a city in Richmond County, Georgia, Richmond 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 population of 744. It is part of the Augusta, Georgia metropolitan a ...

, United States *

Blythe Township, Pennsylvania Blythe Township is a township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Formed in 1846 from part of Schuylkill Township, it is named for State Legislator Calvin Blythe. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the township has a total area of ...

, United States *

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 ...

, Antarctica *

Blythe River The Blythe River is a river in Canterbury, New Zealand. It flows east for , reaching the Pacific Ocean south of the town of Cheviot. The river's course roughly parallels that of the larger Hurunui River, which lies to the north. See also *Lis ...

, river in New Zealand *

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 Bass S ...

, river in Tasmania, Australia *

River Blithe The River Blithe is a river in Staffordshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Trent and runs for around 18 miles from source to its confluence with the River Trent. Etymology The Origins of the name Blithe probably come from the Old E ...

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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 is ...

, Warwickshire, United Kingdom *

Blythe Hill Fields Blythe Hill Fields, also sometimes known as Blythe Hill is an area of elevated open land in the London Borough of Lewisham that commands panoramic views over Canary Wharf, the City, Kent and Surrey. The surrounding areas of Blythe Hill Fields i ...

, London, United Kingdom * Blythe Bridge, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Other

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