as a Last Name
- 4,054
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Blackstone
Meaning & Origins
English: topographic name for someone who lived by a dark (boundary) stone, from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’, ‘dark’ (Old English blæc) + stān ‘stone’, or a habitational name from a place named with these words, for example Blaxton in South Yorkshire.
| 8,183rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Black, Blackwell, Blackburn, Blackmon, Blackman, Blackwood, Blackford, Blackmore, Blackshear, Blackstock
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,054
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Blackstone per capita
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