Bleck

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈbɫɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bleck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 53K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 496K
  • CMCameroon≈1 in 61K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,500 people, est.

Sources
183 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

How Bleck is read(measured from records)

Bleck is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English59%

    Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German22%

    Meist Wohnstättenname zu mnd. blek, blik; vereinzelt auch Berufsname 'Blechschmied'. Bearer count: 636 tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • Spanish6.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Bleck in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bleck 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.

Where Bleck is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈1,500 est.≈1 in 53K—Bleck87
US United States6701 in 496K709Bleck183
CM Cameroon≈460 est.≈1 in 61K—Bleck2
IT Italy≈130 est.≈1 in 467K—Bleck5
GB United Kingdom≈77 est.≈1 in 856K—Bleck31
CH Switzerland≈49 est.≈1 in 172K—Bleck1

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bleck is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Chile, United States, Brazil, Portugal

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Blëck, Blëčk

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Blèck

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bleck is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, tin plate

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Carlos Bleck, b. 1903Martin Bleck, b. 1919Eugene Edmund Bleck, b. 1923Thomas P Bleck, b. 1951Julia Bleck, b. 1985Andreas Bleck, b. 1988Fabian Bleck, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Bleck,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Bleck
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020709#34,446
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000708#31,014
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010670#33,941
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bleck mean, and where does it come from?
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Bleck?
A machine transcription gives /ˈbɫɛk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bleck have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Bleck in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bleck.
How common is the name Bleck?
In the United States, the national register counted 670 people named Bleck in 2010, about 1 in 496 thousand residents.

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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, “Bleck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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