THE MEANING & THE CONTEXT
The story behind Blas
Blas is explicitly recorded as a given name in Wikidata for Philippine citizens including Blas Ople, Blas R. Tabaranza Jr.. This snapshot links the name to 2 distinct Wikidata person records. The count describes Wikidata coverage, not the Philippine population or annual births.
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
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SpanishEtymology & source
Semi-learned borrowing from Latin Blasius.
a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Blaise
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People with the name Blas
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Blas Ople
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1999 to 2000
The record establishes the name association, not the person’s intended meaning, pronunciation or ancestry. Descriptions are attributed to Wikidata contributors (CC0).
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
3
eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
2
distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Blas Ople, Blas R. Tabaranza Jr.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Blas in the birth records
Exact spelling, stated year, published top-ten tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
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Similar names to Blas
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Kolas♂Short form of Nicolas
- Kulas♂Short form of Nicolas
- Arolas♂Given name documented in Philippine-linked records; lexical meaning not established here
- Blanca♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Blando·Recorded Philippine given-name form
- Blythe♀Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Douglas♂Name formation documented in dictionary sources
- Labualas·Recorded Philippine given-name form
What rhymes with Blas?
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Explore Blas further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q840496 — Blas (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Blas Ople (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q840496 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Blas R. Tabaranza Jr. (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q840496 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Blas (Spanish) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.