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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English, Scottish, and northern Irish : of uncertain etymology: perhaps a derivative of the nickname black heart, or from blackguard, a Tudor term denoting a group of the lowest-class menials in a household.
  • Perhaps also an altered spelling of German Blackert.

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