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

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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

Radcliff means red cliff and Read/reade came from red.

Bowie is an angelized last name from a Scottish last name means yellow.

There is a last name Blue that was originally used probably for someone who has blue eyes. There is about 8 people for every 100,000 in the US with that last name.

Blue is usually one of the last colors that a language makes a name for so there are less “blue” last names in other languages.

You can look up surnames on [behind the surname](https://surnames.behindthename.com/names/meaning/yellow)