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The COLLING surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,342 18847 0 5
United States (1880 census) 312 13861 0.001 6
Change since 1880 +1030 -4986 +N/A -1
Other Countries
Australia 194 7779 0.001 12
United Kingdom 894 5761 0.002 19
Top States for COLLING by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Michigan 172 7520 0.002 17
New York 141 14043 0.001 7
Minnesota 90 8950 0.002 18
Nebraska 80 3133 0.005 47
California 64 35173 0.000 2
Top States for COLLING by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wyoming 40 1588 0.008 81
Nebraska 80 3133 0.005 47
North Dakota 15 7819 0.002 23
Minnesota 90 8950 0.002 18
Idaho 23 8030 0.002 18

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

Classification and Origin of COLLING

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

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

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 52 3.87
Asian/Pacific 16 1.19
Mixed Race 14 1.04
White (Caucasian) 1,249 93.07
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant
White (Hispanic) Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of COLLING in historical publications

COLLING. COLLINGS. See under Collin.

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 COLLING

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLING.

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 COLLING

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