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BLACKER

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There are approximately 2,223 people named Blacker in the UK. That makes it the 4,124th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 35 are named Blacker.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English
Occupational Name

Related and similar surnames

Blaker
Blackard
Black
Balcer
Blaacker
Blacer
Blackaere
Blaaker
Blackar
Blaackar
Blackair
Blacar
Blaceri
Balacker
Blaakaer
Ballacker
Blacerak
Balcker
Blacerby
Blacard
Belecker
Belaker
Balaker
Blackarby

The Blacker surname in historical dictionaries

BLAKER. BLACKER. Cotgrave defines a blaclur as noirehsseur. The hitter word he Englishes by " blacker, blackener, lleacke?;" &c., tlius confounding two opposite ideas, and literally "making white black." The truth is, that the A-Sax. hlao, iinaccented, means black, while Mac signifies pale or white, and the derivative verb, hh'ician, to bleach, or make pale. The Promptorium malies ' bleykester' and ' whytster' synonjanous, and explains them by cand'uJarius, a whitener or bleacher of linen, which is doubtless the meaning of this surname. Blncre, apparently used as a baptismal name, is found in Domesd. The 131ackers of co. Armagh, derive themselves traditionally from I'lacar, a Northman chief who settled at Dublin early in the X. cent. Burke's Commoners, ii. -18.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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