Coll
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from ON Kollr, OSw Koll, ON Kolr or ODa/OSw Kol; also from ON/ODa Kolli, later often a pet-form of Nicholas; first attested Col 1066 DB (Lincolnshire)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kol/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Coll is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 23K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 24K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
13,434 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ON Kollr, OSw Koll, ON Kolr or ODa/OSw Kol; also from ON/ODa Kolli, later often a pet-form of Nicholas; first attested Col 1066 DB (Lincolnshire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Coll is read(measured from records)
Coll is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Coll in Spanish.
- English33%
from ON Kollr, OSw Koll, ON Kolr or ODa/OSw Kol; also from ON/ODa Kolli, later often a pet-form of Nicholas; first attested Col 1066 DB (Lincolnshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
To hug or embrace.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French8.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Coll in French.
- Catalan8.6%
neck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Coll counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #273 | 13,434 | 1 in 3.7K | 13K | Coll | 171 |
| US United States | — | 2,704 | 1 in 123K | 3K | Coll | 194 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | 229 | — | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,994 | 1 in 23K | 2K | Coll | 78 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 3 | Coll | 51 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Coll | 47 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 476 | 1 in 7.1K | 476 | Coll | 29 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Coll | 17 |
13,434 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Coll 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.
From a medieval short form of Nicholas. Its use as a modern given name in part represents a transferred use of the surname derived from the given name in the Middle Ages. In Scotland it has been used as an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Colla, perhaps from an Old Celtic root meaning ‘high’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Irish, Col. Usually of Norse origin; in some cases locative from Old-English coll, hill. Best known as the name of a Co. Limerick family, in Ireland since the fourteenth century. Coll as a numerous Donegal name is for Mac Colla, a galloglass family, sometimes changed to MacColley. See MacCullagh. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Scottish: Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Colla , perhaps from an Old Celtic root meaning ‘high’.
as a word
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)
- Carles Casagemasb. 1880ESnot in their usual nameSpanish artist (1880-1901)
- Mad Dog Collb. 1908IEAmerican mobster during depression-era
- Marcos Collb. 1935COColombian footballer (1935-2017)
- José Carrerasb. 1946ESnot in their usual nameCatalan tenor (born 1946)
- Ivonne Coll Mendozab. 1947USPuerto Rican actress
- Awa Marie Coll-Seckb. 1951SNSenegalese politician and medical doctor
- Steve Collb. 1958USJournalist, author, academic, and business executive (born 1958)
- Mar Collb. 1981ESCatalan film director and screenwriter
- Oriol Cardona Collb. 1994ESSpanish ski mountaineer (born 1994)
- Catalina Collb. 2001ESSpanish association football player
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 34 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 13K | #408 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 13K | #408 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,608 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 476 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 323 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 307 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 299 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 257 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 235 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Coll mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Kollr, OSw Koll, ON Kolr or ODa/OSw Kol; also from ON/ODa Kolli, later often a pet-form of Nicholas; first attested Col 1066 DB (Lincolnshire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Coll?
- A machine transcription gives /kol/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Coll have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Coll, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coll.
- Where is Coll most common?
- Coll is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Coll?
- In Spain, the national register counted 13,434 people named Coll, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Coll compared with other names?
- In Spain, Coll is the 273rd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Coll” — the 273rd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.