What country of origin is most associated with the last name Black?

Any idea of the history or the reason why it was chosen? Also is there any evidence of when it was first used? Thank you!

What country of origin is most associated with the last name Black?
This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name,


Black Name Meaning and History


Scottish and English: from Middle English blak(e) 鈥榖lack鈥?(Old English bl忙c, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man.


Scottish and English: from Old English blac 鈥榩ale鈥? 鈥榝air鈥? i.e. precisely the opposite meaning to 1, and a variant of Blake 2. Blake and Black are found more or less interchangeably in several surnames and place names.


English: variant of Blanc as a Norman name. The pronunciation of the nasalized vowel gave considerable difficulty to English speakers, and its quality was often ignored.


Scottish and Irish: translation of various names from Gaelic dubh 鈥榖lack鈥?(see Duff).


Danish and Swedish: generally, probably the English and Scottish name, but in some cases perhaps a variant spelling of Blak, a nickname from blak 鈥榖lack鈥?


In some cases, a translation of various names meaning 鈥榖lack鈥? for example German and Jewish Schwarz.


hope this helps.
Reply:Africa. A ton of African-Americans chose "Black" as a surname when they were freed in 1865 because they couldn't stand their former owner, and didn't want to take his surname.





Pretty much any surname that is an English word is going to be associated with England / Scotland / Ireland, the way a Spanish ("Del Rio") word will be associated with Spain and so forth.
Reply:i have the last name of black in my family history on my mom's side- the originated from england.