Surname Blacco
Origin and meaning
It comes from the Greek blacòs, "the Vlach", according to V. Blunda. The Greek term designates the person originating from Wallachia, a Balkan region of the lower Danube. The Sicilian surname functioned as a nickname applied to the ancestor coming from that region or linked to contact with it, later transformed into a family surname.
Variants
Geographic distribution: Sicily
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Entry compiled from specialized sources on Italian surname studies.
Sources
This entry of the Italian Surname Meanings dictionary is based on the following specialized onomastic sources:
- Blunda, V. (2018). Supposte origini dei cognomi in Sicilia [Digital edition]. Retrieved from https://www.trapaninostra.it