In Russia the name Blake typically means one who is dark or fair in skin color.
― Anonymous User 5/1/2016
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Blake Alma, an avid outdoorsman, is an extremely manly person. He is also an author. He wrote The Outdoorsmen Bible and Harvesting Nature's Bait Shop. Blake should be a boys name, period! Blake comes from an old English term meaning "Son of Lake." The last time I checked in this perverted planet "Son" means boy. So if you come across a girl named Blake, it simply means the parents really wanted a boy, but they got a girl. So they decided to give her a masculine name, Blake...
― Anonymous User 7/10/2015
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It's quite funny that it means "pale" because the Dutch word for pale is "bleek" which is pronounced the same as Blake and looks alike as well. I guess the words are related.
Blake is derived from Old English 'Blac' (the 'A' here is long so the word rhymes with Jake) meaning pale. It does NOT mean black which is 'Blæc' (rhymes with Jack) in Old English. Blac (Blake) and Blæc (Black) are very similar in spelling which is why people often get confused.