What are the most common Japanese names with the word black and white?

According to google "white" = _shiro_ and "black" = _kuro_.

For example white and black princess: _Shirohime_ , _Kurohime_. I'm not sure
though if these are valid names in Japanese.

I'm looking for names with meaning as I'm currently writing a non-fictional
story.
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names english-to-japanese
Female names containing "black" and "white"
Although 白 and 黒 are often used as it is as a name of a dog like シロ or クロ
according to the color, there are not many cases used as a woman's name as it
is or as a part, especially for 黒.  
For 白 that may be used, "雪{ゆき} _snow_ " or "鶴{つる} _crane_ " which is
reminiscent of 白 is often used as it is or as part of the name. I'll show you
relatively common names examined
[here](http://name.m3q.jp/list?s=%E9%9B%AA&g=2) and
[here](http://name.m3q.jp/list?g=2&s=%E9%B6%B4).

  * 鶴:  
つる, 鶴{つる}, 千鶴｛ちづる｝, 千鶴子｛ちづこ｝, 田鶴子｛たづこ｝, 鶴代｛つるよ｝, ...

  * 雪:  
ゆき, 雪{ゆき, せつ}, 雪子{ゆきこ, せつこ}, 小雪{こゆき}, 雪愛{ゆきな}, 雪愛{ゆきな}, 雪乃{ゆきの}, 白雪｛しらゆき, はゆ｝,
...

By the way, 白雪姫{しらゆきひめ} for _Snow White_ in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
is very famous in Japan.

白雪{しらゆき} could be as a female name and it sounds beautifully, but I've never
heard it as an actual name.
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You should distinguish

  1. names that contain the reading しろ・しら or くろ, and 
  2. names that contain the _kanji_ 白 or 黒.

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Given the obvious associations with white ("clarity", "light", "brightness",
etc.) and black, black is quite rare as a given name. As for the two points
above,

  1. As noted by @mackygoo, シロ or クロ are names often given to animals.

Even the `#names` database on <http://jisho.org/> (based on
[ENAMDICT](http://www.edrdg.org/enamdict/enamdict_doc.html)) containing over
100,000 female given names, contains only very rare or unusual names
containing しろ・しら with the meaning of "white" and even fewer containing くろ:

> 白【しろ】、白雨【しろう】、白風【しろっぷ】、白羽【しらは】、白桐【しらぎり】、…  
>  黒乃【くろの】、黒子【くろこ】

  2. There are a number of names containing the _kanji_ 白, by writing a name like あきら、きよし、ゆき with the _kanji_ 白. Essentially, 白 can stand in for 清（きよ）、明（あき）、雪（ゆき）、… as well as having an addition reading of はく (or simply は by artistic license):

> 白【あきら】、白【きよし】、白【ゆき】、…  
>  白華【きよか】、白胡【あきこ】、白江【きよえ】、…  
>  彩白【いろは】、…

This second set contains more reasonable names that are loosely associated to
"white", however the reading alone (say, Kiyoka) would not be enough to see
this association ( **白** 華).
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