The story
- Old English · inherited fromblæc“black”
- English todayBlakeney
From either Old English blæc (“black”) (oblique definite declension blacan), or from Old English personal name Blaca (genitive singular Blacan) + īeġ (“island”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishblæc all →
blakeBlackburnBlackmoreBlakeleyblackmoorBlackmerbleckBlakemereBlackmere
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.