BlackEnglish Means either "black" (from Old English blæc) or "pale" (from Old English blac). It could refer to a person with a pale or a dark complexion, or a person who worked with black dye.
BlackburnEnglish From the name of a city in Lancashire, meaning "black stream" in Old English.
BlakeEnglish Variant of Black. A famous bearer was the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827).
BlakeleyEnglish From name of various English places, derived from Old English blæc "black" and leah "woodland, clearing".
BlakesleyEnglish From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".
CarboneItalian From a nickname for a person with dark features, from Italian carbone meaning "coal".
CareyIrish Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ciardha meaning "descendant of Ciardha".
DoyleIrish From the Irish Ó Dubhghaill, which means "descendant of Dubhghall". A famous bearer was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.
DuaneIrish Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubháin meaning "descendant of Dubhán".
Duffy 1Irish Derived from Irish Ó Dubhthaigh meaning "descendant of Dubthach". Their original homeland was Monaghan where the surname is still the most common; they are also from Donegal and Roscommon.
FeketeHungarian Means "black" in Hungarian, originally a nickname for a person with dark hair or a dark complexion.
KaramazovLiterature Created by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky for his novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879), about three brothers and their murdered father. Dostoyevsky may have based it on Tartar/Turkic кара (kara) meaning "black" and Russian мазать (mazat) meaning "stain". The connection to black is implied in the novel when one of the brothers is accidentally addressed as Mr. Черномазов (Chernomazov), as if based on Russian чёрный meaning "black".
KilduffIrish From the Irish Mac Giolla Dhuibh meaning "son of the black-haired man".
KohlerGerman From Middle High German koler meaning "charcoal burner" or "charcoal seller".
KurosawaJapanese From Japanese 黒 (kuro) meaning "black" and 沢 or 澤 (sawa) meaning "marsh". A notable bearer was Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), a Japanese film director.
LêVietnamese Vietnamese form of Li 2, from Sino-Vietnamese 黎 (lê). This is the third most common surname in Vietnam.
SchwarzeneggerGerman From a place name, derived from Old High German swarz meaning "black" and ekka meaning "edge, corner". A famous bearer of this name is actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-).