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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from a diminutive of Black.
  • English : nickname for a person with dark hair, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a dark headland, from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ + heved ‘head’.

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