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Black

in Rhode Island

There are 247 people with the last name "Black" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

NameRank
Black 445
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  1. is 441st most common Bowen
  2. is 442nd most common Enos
  3. is 443rd most common Grenier
  4. is 444th most common Araujo
  5. is 445th most common Black
  6. is 446th most common Buckley
  7. is 447th most common Gauvin
  8. is 448th most common Morse
  9. is 449th most common Orourke

Most Common First Names for Black

John, Robert, William, David, James, Richard, Jennifer, Brian, Christine

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 Rhode Island

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John Black, RI (8 searches)
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