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The COLLEGE surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 427 46839 0 2
United States (1880 census) 99 31747 0 2
Change since 1880 +328 -15092 +N/A 0
Other Countries
Australia 0 0
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for COLLEGE by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 189 18837 0.002 15
Minnesota 41 40004 0.001 8
Missouri 29 40596 0.001 5
Maryland 23 46947 0.000 4
Ohio 17 107743 0.000 1
Top States for COLLEGE by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
North Dakota 12 16655 0.002 19
Pennsylvania 189 18837 0.002 15
Minnesota 41 40004 0.001 8
West Virginia 15 17181 0.001 8
Nebraska 12 34007 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 COLLEGE live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COLLEGE represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COLLEGE in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COLLEGE by picking someone at random in North Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COLLEGE

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

Ethnic distribution of COLLEGE in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 403 94.38
Black/African American 11 2.58
Mixed Race 6 1.41
White (Hispanic) 6 1.41
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

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

Meaning of COLLEGE in historical publications

COLLEGE. In the west of England any com-t or group of cottages having a common entrance from the street is called a college, and residence at such a place rather than in a imiversity probably originated the name.

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 COLLEGE

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLEGE.

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 COLLEGE

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