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Question: Can a black person have the last name Hilton!?
Can a black person have the last name Hilton!. I have only heard white people with the last name Hilton!.

Obviously they wouldn't be related to Paris Hilton!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Hilton isnt a very common last name!.!.!. But their is no law saying that a black person cant have the last name Hilton!.!.!. So it can be doneWww@QuestionHome@Com

Many former slaves took the surname of their white owners when they were freed!.

A lot of male slave owners trifled with the help, especially the young pretty ones, when the Missus was feeling poorly, or passed 40, or was out of town, or had her back turned!.

I do not know the Hilton family tree at all!. If there were slave owners in it, it is possible that Paris has some distant cousins who are black, thanks to an ancestor who owned slaves and had children by them!.

I have some black fourth cousins via an ancestral uncle who had children by four of his slave women!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Sorry, the only ones I know of with that name are relatives of Paris!. But any one of any color, sex, national origin, or whatever, can have any surname!.

And don't worry, if Paris would opt for a DNA test, blacks WILL show up!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Why not!? Most Americans of black ancestry have names they took after the Civil War!. They frequently took the names of their former owners!. There were Hiltons in the South!. Now how many owned slaves if any I wouldn't know!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Rachel Hylton from X-factor is black!.Surnames don't belong to any particular race!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

any race can have any nameWww@QuestionHome@Com

ted pack is right!.Www@QuestionHome@Com