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The COLLISON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,788 10557 0.001 10
United States (1880 census) 745 6986 0.001 15
Change since 1880 +2043 -3571 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 645 2513 0.004 39
United Kingdom 1,466 3832 0.003 32
Top States for COLLISON by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 328 3671 0.003 33
Maryland 322 1915 0.006 61
California 188 13343 0.001 6
Florida 157 11609 0.001 10
Iowa 140 2925 0.005 48
Top States for COLLISON by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Delaware 124 1120 0.016 158
Maryland 322 1915 0.006 61
Iowa 140 2925 0.005 48
Alaska 26 3547 0.004 41
Michigan 328 3671 0.003 33

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COLLISON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COLLISON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COLLISON in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COLLISON by picking someone at random in Delaware than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COLLISON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COLLISON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the COLLISON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COLLISON in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 57 2.04
White (Hispanic) 35 1.26
Mixed Race 28 1
Asian/Pacific 21 0.75
Native American/Alaskan 17 0.61
White (Caucasian) 2,630 94.33

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COLLISON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of COLLISON in historical publications

•COLLINSON. COLLISON. See Colin.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to COLLISON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLISON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COLLISON

The following words are slight variants of COLLISON that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.