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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : from a diminutive of Black.
  • Scottish : nickname for a person with dark eyes or one who was reputed to have the power of casting the evil eye on someone, from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’, ‘dark’ + ie ‘eye’.

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