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"Kuro" just means "black". It's like naming a black dog "Blackie" because it's all black; she was an orphan (pet at the pound), she had strikingly black hair, so she got (nick?)named Kuro (plus the in-joke for readers of the animal association with the name). The manga is written for a Japanese audience, and while the reading and writing system of the world is intended to be different, speech mannerisms and concepts are going to be Japanese-based in origin because it's simple to do. This is why you see so many manga that use Japanese honorifics in other worlds that are supposed to have other languages (besides what a linguist would acknowledge is a common history of honorifics in almost if not every language, with modern English's discarding of honorifics to be a very notable outlier; still it remains that it uses the Japanese system specifically, and of course is written IN Japanese, too); it's also known as "Write what you know". It takes an exceptional writer to NOT do that, and have the Isekai'd person stumble with the differences they need to adapt to. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an English work actually plays on this quite well, for example (though has a number of ahistorical concepts and situations, Hank's influence aside; Clemens, aka Twain, was a bitter man with a deep hatred for the romanticization of medieval era knighthood et al).While i agree with you, the fact they connect "black haired cat girl" with "Kuro" is the main point.
It would be an extremely low chance if she was just randomly given the name without its background significance.
And the only once we know who would logically make that connection is the MC unless you make the argument that everyone in this story speak Japanese.
Which to be fair is not an impossible leap of logic as it prevents language barriers in the writing.