Colclough
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Person from Cowclough (earlier Colleclogh)’, Lancashire, probably ‘Cola’s ravine’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊɫkɫaʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colclough is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- USUnited States
- IEIreland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Person from Cowclough (earlier Colleclogh)’, Lancashire, probably ‘Cola’s ravine’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Colclough is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, the parish of Whitworth, Lancs., recorded in the 13th cent, as Colleclogh, probably from the OE byname Cola (see Cole 2) + OEcloh ravine (see Clough). Var.: Coleclough.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, This English toponymic is the name of a family established in Co. Wexford in the sixteenth century. See Coakley. Bibl. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Colcloughb. 1767GBIrish politician, died 1807
- Mary Ann Colcloughb. 1836NZFeminist, social reformer
- Graham Colcloughb. 1883AUAustralian rules footballer (1883-1954)
- Jim Colcloughb. 1936USAmerican football player (1936-2004)
- Dave Colcloughb. 1964GBBritish poker player
- David Colcloughb. 1971GBBritish literary critic
- Ricardo Colcloughb. 1982USPlayer of American and Canadian football
- Katie Colcloughb. 1990GBEnglish racing cyclist
- Ryan Colcloughb. 1994GBEnglish association football player (born 1994)
- Christina ColcloughDKDanish sociologist and activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #22,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,570 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 20 | #42,764 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #168,551 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Colclough mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Person from Cowclough (earlier Colleclogh)’, Lancashire, probably ‘Cola’s ravine’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Colclough?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊɫkɫaʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Colclough have the most bearers?
- Colclough is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Colclough?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colcloughThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Colclough”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.