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Typo? edit
Please see quote for possible typo "insitutions". LilHelpa (talk) 14:53, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
Name? edit
Is that his real surname? --Theresonator (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
- Why wouldn't it be? His father's name is Max Blond[1], so I guess that makes Blond his 'real' surname. Qwfp (talk) 22:23, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
- It sounds like an affected name. One which an artist, for example, would choose to use. Maybe his dad changed his name to "Blond" by deed poll, which would make Phillip Blond a real name. I'd still wager that it was an invented surname at some point. Lots of immigrants to this country change their surnames to something more pronounceable and less foreign sounding. --Theresonator (talk) 18:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Or it might have the same origin as "Blunt (surname)", which the Surname Database says means 'blond' and traces back to the Normans: [2] Qwfp (talk) 18:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
Phillip Blond says that he has Jewish grandparents, so maybe the grandparents came here during or just before WW2 and changed their name to Blond. I'm not trying to make a big issue out of this - it's just an unusual surname for a Brit (Phillip Blond is the only British person with their own dedicated page on Wikipedia with that surname) and I wondered about it's origins. I still say it was invented at some point. --Theresonator (talk) 18:32, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
- In fact, he's not the only British Blond in Wikipedia - there's also Anthony Blond (20 March 1928 – 27 February 2008). Qwfp (talk) 19:52, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
He's the only one on the Blond (disambiguation) page, unless either of the porn stars are British, which I doubt. --Theresonator (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2011 (UTC)