Blacķ
surname · Latin script
Blacķ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 2K
- USUnited States1 in 2.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 584 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 955 (inferred from the name graph)
154,738 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mauritania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Black in US United States, CA Canada, AU Australia and 4 more and Blåċk in EG Egypt.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle Englishblak(measured from records)
- Old Englishblæc“black“black, dark”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*blak(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*blakaz“burnt”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰleg-“to burn“to burn, shine”(measured from records)
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleach.
Sources 6
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blacķ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 154,738 | 1 in 2.1K | 155K | Black | 584 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Black | 345 |
| CA Canada | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Black | 262 |
| EG Egypt | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Blåċk | 36 |
| SD Sudan | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Black | 11 |
| AU Australia | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Black | 237 |
| MR Mauritania | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 955 | — | Black | 7 |
| BZ Belize | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Black | 15 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 79 | 1 in 1.3K | 79 | — | 7 |
154,738 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blacķ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low… Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and Scottish Surnames and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Blacķ have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 155 thousand people named Blacķ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled black.
- How common is the name Blacķ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154,738 people named Blacķ in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blac%C4%B7The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Blacķ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.