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The COLLETT surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 7,768 4224 0.003 29
United States (1880 census) 1,381 4127 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +6387 -97 0 +1
Other Countries
Australia 1,319 1248 0.008 81
United Kingdom 5,139 1226 0.011 112
Top States for COLLETT by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,308 495 0.032 324
Ohio 626 2399 0.006 55
California 488 6200 0.001 14
Georgia 462 2318 0.006 56
Texas 409 5373 0.002 20
Top States for COLLETT by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 1,308 495 0.032 324
Utah 198 1654 0.009 89
Idaho 105 1863 0.008 81
Georgia 462 2318 0.006 56
Ohio 626 2399 0.006 55

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

Classification and Origin of COLLETT

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COLLETT 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 COLLETT 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 COLLETT in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 119 1.53
Black/African American 103 1.33
Mixed Race 80 1.03
Asian/Pacific 31 0.4
Native American/Alaskan 29 0.37
White (Caucasian) 7,406 95.34

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

Meaning of COLLETT in historical publications

COLET. COLLETT. "Acolyth, acolythus, in our old English called a colet, was an inferior church sei"vant, who next under the sub-deacon waited on the priests and deacons, and performed the meaner offices of lighting the caudles, carrying the bread and wine, and paying other servile attendance." Keunet's Parochial Antiq. Burn's Eccles. Law. See CoUett below.

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 COLLETT

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLETT.

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 COLLETT

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