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Amsel 2 German
Means "blackbird" in German.

Bartram English
From the given name Bertram.

Black English
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.

Blackburn English
From the name of a city in Lancashire, meaning "black stream" in Old English.

Blackman English
From a nickname, a variant of Black.

Blackwood English, Scottish
From an English place name meaning "black wood".

Blake English
Variant of Black. A famous bearer was the poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827).

Blakeley English
From name of various English places, derived from Old English blæc "black" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Blakesley English
From the name of a town in Northamptonshire, itself meaning "Blæcwulf's meadow" in Old English. Blæcwulf is a byname meaning "black wolf".

Carbone Italian
From a nickname for a person with dark features, from Italian carbone meaning "coal".

Carey Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Ciardha meaning "descendant of Ciardha".

Černý m Czech
Means "black" in Czech.

Charbonneau French
Derived from a diminutive form of French charbon "charcoal", a nickname for a person with black hair or a dark complexion.

Colby English
From various English place names, which were derived from the Old Norse byname Koli (meaning "coal, dark") and býr "farm, settlement".

Cole English
From a medieval short form of Nicholas or from the byname Cola.

Corvi Italian
Nickname derived from Italian corvo meaning "crow".

Cowden English
From various English place names, which meaning either "coal valley", "coal hill" or "cow pasture" in Old English.

Crawford English
From a place name derived from Old English crawe "crow" and ford "river crossing". A notable bearer was the American actress Joan Crawford (1904-1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur.

Crawley English
From various place names derived from Old English crawe "crow" and leah "woodland, clearing".

Crnčević Serbian, Croatian
Derived from Serbian and Croatian црн (crn) meaning "black".

Crowley 2 English
Variant of Crawley.

Delaney 2 Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhshláine meaning "descendant of Dubhshláine".

Dolan Irish
From the Irish Ó Dubhshláin meaning "descendant of Dubhshláine".

Doyle Irish
From the Irish Ó Dubhghaill, which means "descendant of Dubhghall". A famous bearer was Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories.

Duane Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubháin meaning "descendant of Dubhán".

Duffy 1 Irish
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.

Fekete Hungarian
Means "black" in Hungarian, originally a nickname for a person with dark hair or a dark complexion.

Ingram English
Derived from the given name Ingram.

Karagiannis m Greek
From the Greek prefix καρα (kara) meaning "black, dark" (of Turkish origin) and the given name Giannis.

Karamazov Literature
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".

Karga Turkish
Nickname meaning "crow" in Turkish.

Kilduff Irish
From the Irish Mac Giolla Dhuibh meaning "son of the black-haired man".

Kohler German
From Middle High German koler meaning "charcoal burner" or "charcoal seller".

Kurosawa Japanese
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.

Lê Vietnamese
Vietnamese form of Li 2, from Sino-Vietnamese 黎 (lê). This is the third most common surname in Vietnam.

Li 2 Chinese
From Chinese 黎 (lí) meaning "black".

Lu 2 Chinese
From Chinese 卢 (lú) meaning "rice bowl, black", also referring to an ancient minor territory in what is now Shandong province.

Mac Dhuibhshíthe Irish
Means "son of Duibhshíth" in Irish. The given name Duibhshíth means "black peace".

Merle French
French form of Merlo.

Merlo Italian, Spanish
Means "blackbird", ultimately from Latin merula. The blackbird is a symbol of a naive person.

Mustonen Finnish
Derived from Finnish musta meaning "black".

Negrescu Romanian
Patronymic derived from Romanian negru "black".

Negri Italian
Nickname derived from Italian negro "black", used to refer to someone with dark hair or dark skin.

Negrini Italian
Variant of Negri.

Neri Italian
From Italian nero "black", indicating a person with a dark complexion or dark hair.

Nieddu Italian
From Sardinian nieddu meaning "black", derived from Latin niger.

Nigro Italian
Variant of Negri.

O'Byrne Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Ó Broin meaning "descendant of Bran 1".

Ó Dubháin Irish
Irish Gaelic form of Duane.

Rapp 2 German
From Middle High German raben meaning "raven", a nickname for a person with black hair.

Ravn Danish
Means "raven" in Danish, from Old Norse hrafn.

Rocco Italian
Derived from the given name Rocco.

Schwartz German, Jewish
Variant of Schwarz.

Schwarz German, Jewish
Means "black" in German, from Old High German swarz. It originally described a person with black hair or a dark complexion.

Schwarzenberg German
Means "black mountain" in German.

Schwarzenegger German
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-).

Smolak Polish
Occupational name for a distiller of pitch, derived from the Old Slavic word smola meaning "pitch, resin".

Szwarc Polish
Polish phonetic spelling of German Schwarz.

Vincent 2 Irish
Anglicized form of Irish Mac Dhuibhinse meaning "son of Duibhinse", a given name meaning "black island".

Voronin m Russian
Derived from Russian ворона (vorona) meaning "crow".

Wrona Polish
Derived from Polish wrona meaning "crow".

Wroński m Polish
Derived from Polish wrona meaning "crow".