why are some colours commonly found as surnames (white, brown, green) but not others (red, blue, yellow)

Question

And furthermore how does language play a part – I know red (rojas/rossi) is a Spanish and Italian surname but not English

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Answer 1

Australians used to call any body or dog with red hair “Blue” or “Bluey” it seems to have fallen out of favour now days. Although there is the cartoon series I guess its just not in the vernacular these days, it seems…………………..and those dogs are actually blue 🙂