Colla

• Spanish:/ˈko.ʃa/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Portuguese:/kollɐ/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/kola/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Colla is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 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.

• Spanish41%

  A team of dockworkers or stevedores

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• English24%

  plural of collum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Portuguese20%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Colla in Portuguese.

• Italian5.4%

  var. gráfica de Cola.

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• French5.1%

  third-person singular past historic of coller

  as a word·kaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Colla is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Italy

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Collà

• Italian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Collà, Collã

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Collà, Cōḷla

• Lao surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Peru, United States, Thailand

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Calla, คอลลา, Callá, Khonla

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Colla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Irish, Ancient Irish name used by Ulster families such as the McMahons, MacSweeneys and MacDonalds.

  as a name·Irish first names

• In Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of collum

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Johnny Collab. 1952USAmerican guitarist, saxophonist
• Rolando Collab. 1957CHSwiss film director and screenwriter
• Sebastiano Collab. 1972ITItalian actor

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).

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Colla come from?

Ancient Irish name used by Ulster families such as the McMahons, MacSweeneys and MacDonalds. Recorded by Irish first names.

What are other forms of the name Colla?

In the etymology graph, Cola is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Colla?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈko.ʃa/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kollɐ/; in Italian /kola/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Colla mean?

In Spanish, A team of dockworkers or stevedores

Which countries have the most people with the surname Colla?

Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Colla in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colla. After it come Brazil, Argentina, Belgium and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Colla most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Colla is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 9.8 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Colla?

In Brazil, the national register counted 2,922 people named Colla, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.