The COLSON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	9,373	3488	0.003	35
United States (1880 census)	2,688	2268	0.005	54
Change since 1880	+6685	-1220	-0.002	-19
Other Countries
Australia	222	6858	0.001	14
United Kingdom	616	7639	0.001	13

Top States for COLSON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	1,131	1908	0.007	71
Georgia	657	1678	0.008	80
Texas	460	4790	0.002	22
California	444	6536	0.001	13
North Carolina	428	2664	0.005	53
Top States for COLSON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	333	813	0.026	261
Idaho	178	1001	0.014	138
Georgia	657	1678	0.008	80
Nebraska	136	1582	0.008	79
Florida	1,131	1908	0.007	71

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COLSON

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 COLSON 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 COLSON 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 COLSON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	129	1.38
Mixed Race	120	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	49	0.52
Asian/Pacific	44	0.47
White (Caucasian)	7,410	79.06
Black/African American	1,621	17.29

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

Similar names to COLSON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLSON.

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.