Blakeley is an English surname and place name from the Old English blaec, "black" or dark, and leah, "meadow", so it describes a dark clearing in the woods. As a girls' name it belongs with Blakely and Hadley to the wave of surname names that took off in the 2010s. In the United States Blakeley ranked number 7224 in 2000, reached its best position of number 2033 in 2024 and stands at number 2547 in 2025.