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The COLEN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 832 27313 0 3
United States (1880 census) 77 37332 0 2
Change since 1880 +755 +10019 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 19 53193 0 1
United Kingdom 10 30570 0 0
Top States for COLEN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 126 20365 0.000 4
Florida 98 18765 0.001 6
New York 67 29178 0.000 4
Indiana 56 13104 0.001 9
Michigan 55 24781 0.001 6
Top States for COLEN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 13 12558 0.001 11
Indiana 56 13104 0.001 9
Arkansas 23 10556 0.001 9
North Dakota 5 16653 0.001 8
Maryland 39 14656 0.001 7

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

Classification and Origin of COLEN

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the COLEN surname.

Ethnic distribution of COLEN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 579 69.59
Black/African American 160 19.23
White (Hispanic) 75 9.01
Mixed Race 10 1.2
Asian/Pacific 8 0.96
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 0

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

COLEN is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of COLEN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COLEN.

Similar names to COLEN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLEN.

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 COLEN

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