Colchen Surname

1,658,108th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 120 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
France
Highest density in:
France

Colchen Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Colchen Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
France1161:572,61077,014
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Canada11:36,845,591464,108
Luxembourg11:580,54215,155
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:50,218,684817,899

Colchen Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Colchen Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Colchen has its highest incidence in France. It may also appear as:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Colchen? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 1,658,108th most frequently held family name on a worldwide basis It is held by around 1 in 60,729,549 people. It occurs mostly in Europe, where 98 percent of Colchen live; 98 percent live in Western Europe and 97 percent live in Gallo-Europe.

The surname is most common in France, where it is borne by 116 people, or 1 in 572,610. In France Colchen is most common in: Île-de-France, where 27 percent are found, Hauts-de-France, where 22 percent are found and Grand Est, where 16 percent are found. Excluding France Colchen is found in 3 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 2 percent are found and Canada, where 1 percent are found.

Colchen Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Colchen has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Colchen last name increased 200 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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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
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  • 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 Colchen
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