Bläck
surname · Latin script
Bläck 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.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bläck itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 584 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
154,738 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
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 ZA South Africa, US United States, CA Canada and 3 more.
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.
Cited for this meaning 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 across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bläck 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 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Black | 345 |
| CA Canada | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Black | 262 |
| AU Australia | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Black | 237 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈8,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Black | 95 |
| BZ Belize | ≈280 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Bläck is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In gmw-cfr, bare, naked, uncovered; said of body parts, not of people
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, ink; pigment or dye for writing, printing etc
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bläck 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 Bläck have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 155 thousand people named Bläck, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled black.
- Where is Bläck most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bläck is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bläck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154,738 people named Bläck in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bläck?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bl%C3%A4ckThe 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, “Bläck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.