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 settlers in the mid-5th c ...
''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 bran ...
''*blithiz'' ("gentle, kind").
People
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Blythe (given name), including a list of people named Blythe
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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 ...
, including a list of people with the surname Blythe
Places
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Blythe Township, Schuylkill County, 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
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Blythe Bay, Antarctica
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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
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, 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 is ...
, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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Blythe Hill Fields, London, United Kingdom
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Blythe Bridge
Blythe Bridge is a village in Staffordshire, England, south-east of Stoke-on-Trent.
Etymology
Blythe Bridge is so called as it is built around the site of a bridge over the River Blithe (spelt differently from the name of the village itself), a ...
, 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 pull of a string. It was created in 1972 and was initially only sold for one year in the United States by toy company ...
See also
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Blithe (disambiguation)
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Blyth (disambiguation)
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Blyth River (Northern Territory)
The Blyth River is a river in the Northern Territory, Australia.
Course and features
The headwaters rise east of Shadforth Hills and flows in a northerly direction through mostly uninhabited country, past the small community of Gamardi before di ...
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River Blyth (disambiguation)
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