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Black

in Massachusetts

There are 1,669 people with the last name "Black" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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  1. is 356th most common Matthews
  2. is 357th most common Ruiz
  3. is 358th most common Arruda
  4. is 359th most common Castro
  5. is 360th most common Black
  6. is 361st most common Bates
  7. is 362nd most common Kelleher
  8. is 363rd most common Page
  9. is 364th most common Chapman

Most Common First Names for Black

Robert, James, John, David, William, Richard, Christopher, Barbara, Stephen, Charles

Meaning & History

Scottish and English: from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or darkhaired man.

Scottish and English: from Old English blāc ‘pale’, ‘fair’, i.e. precisely the opposite meaning to 1, and a variant of Blake 2. Blake and Black are found more or less interchangeably in several surnames and place names.

English: variant of Blanc as a Norman name. The pronunciation of the nasalized vowel gave considerable difficulty to English speakers, and its quality was often ignored.

Scottish and Irish: translation of various names from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff).

Danish and Swedish: generally, probably the English and Scottish name, but in some cases perhaps a variant spelling of Blak, a nickname from blak ‘black’.

In some cases, a translation of various names meaning ‘black’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz.

Recent Searches for "Black" in Massachusetts

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Robert Black, MA (9 searches)
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