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Blandus is a Latin word meaning "sweet, charming, winsome, flattering." It is attested as a Roman cognomen. Blandinus/Blandina would be masculine/feminine derivatives, respectively; the latter becomes Blandine in French. The name is in use because of Saint Blandine of Lyons, said to have been martyred in 177.

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Blandine is thus a French version of a Latin name. Nothing surprising there: the French language is an offshoot of Latin! ;-)