Colón Surname
Approximately 6,308 people bear this surname
Colón Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 5,408 | 1:656 | 113 |
| United States | 451 | 1:803,678 | 61,918 |
| Dominican Republic | 270 | 1:38,640 | 2,109 |
| Spain | 60 | 1:779,201 | 32,544 |
| Mexico | 51 | 1:2,433,847 | 20,676 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Venezuela | 9 | 1:3,356,009 | 33,931 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 1:1,786,963 | 6,100 |
| Honduras | 6 | 1:1,469,407 | 5,474 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Ecuador | 4 | 1:3,976,462 | 28,589 |
| Costa Rica | 4 | 1:1,195,017 | 6,919 |
| El Salvador | 2 | 1:3,171,944 | 6,376 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Cuba | 2 | 1:5,761,358 | 13,825 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Curaçao | 1 | 1:157,247 | 1,313 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Colon (167,880), Colòn (26), Colõn (2) & Cólon (2) are calculated separately.
Colón (15) may also be a first name.
Colón Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Colón Come From? nationality or country of origin
The surname Colón is borne by more people in Puerto Rico than any other country/territory. It can also be rendered as a variant: Colon, Colòn, Colõn or Cólon. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Colón? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 77,538th most common surname at a global level. It is borne by approximately 1 in 1,155,286 people. The surname Colón is mostly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Colón are found; 90 percent are found in Caribbean and 90 percent are found in Hispano-Caribbean. Colón is also the 2,900,335th most prevalent first name internationally It is held by 15 people.
It is most frequently used in Puerto Rico, where it is borne by 5,408 people, or 1 in 656. In Puerto Rico it is most frequent in: Carolina, where 40 percent reside, Villalba, where 13 percent reside and Juana Díaz, where 5 percent reside. Aside from Puerto Rico this surname occurs in 26 countries. It also occurs in The United States, where 7 percent reside and The Dominican Republic, where 4 percent reside.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
- Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Colón
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