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negro Name Meaning and History

  1. nickname or ethnic name from negro ‘black’ (Latin niger), denoting someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
  2. from a medieval continuation of the Latin personal name Niger.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of negro Families in the US in 1920
Number of negro families
 34-65
 12-33
 1-11
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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