Coles Surname
Approximately 55,193 people bear this surname
Coles Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Nicholas,' from nick. Cole, whence the diminutive Col-in. Coles is the patronymic or genitive form; compare Williams, Jenkins, Jones, &c.
'Havell, and Harvy Hafter, Jack Travell, and Cole Crafter.
Read More About This SurnameColes Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 19,018 | 1:19,059 | 2,397 |
| England | 17,909 | 1:3,111 | 411 |
| Australia | 5,421 | 1:4,980 | 721 |
| Canada | 3,943 | 1:9,345 | 1,397 |
| Philippines | 2,382 | 1:42,501 | 6,753 |
| Wales | 1,861 | 1:1,663 | 159 |
| New Zealand | 1,036 | 1:4,371 | 687 |
| Ecuador | 729 | 1:21,819 | 2,996 |
| South Africa | 518 | 1:104,590 | 12,646 |
| Scotland | 353 | 1:15,167 | 1,903 |
| France | 198 | 1:335,468 | 50,650 |
| Mexico | 194 | 1:639,826 | 10,293 |
| Romania | 158 | 1:127,075 | 13,924 |
| Israel | 139 | 1:61,566 | 7,798 |
| Northern Ireland | 123 | 1:15,000 | 2,046 |
| Benin | 121 | 1:85,418 | 10,024 |
| Spain | 99 | 1:472,243 | 24,257 |
| Haiti | 88 | 1:121,408 | 5,536 |
| Germany | 87 | 1:925,350 | 65,249 |
| Costa Rica | 81 | 1:59,013 | 1,267 |
| Brazil | 71 | 1:3,015,131 | 88,032 |
| Portugal | 57 | 1:182,776 | 7,697 |
| Argentina | 37 | 1:1,155,227 | 69,250 |
| Thailand | 33 | 1:2,140,556 | 247,258 |
| Italy | 31 | 1:1,972,796 | 88,569 |
| Guernsey | 29 | 1:2,222 | 539 |
| Barbados | 28 | 1:10,266 | 774 |
| Jersey | 25 | 1:3,968 | 780 |
| Chile | 24 | 1:734,020 | 16,565 |
| Dominican Republic | 23 | 1:453,606 | 14,824 |
| Cayman Islands | 21 | 1:3,043 | 397 |
| Iraq | 21 | 1:1,667,698 | 16,789 |
| Qatar | 19 | 1:124,105 | 14,725 |
| Netherlands | 18 | 1:938,176 | 63,634 |
| Ireland | 17 | 1:276,996 | 9,887 |
| Denmark | 17 | 1:332,042 | 23,714 |
| Venezuela | 17 | 1:1,776,710 | 22,419 |
| Gibraltar | 16 | 1:2,122 | 483 |
| Greece | 14 | 1:791,414 | 84,075 |
| Zimbabwe | 13 | 1:1,187,557 | 68,998 |
| Northern Cyprus | 10 | 1:31,901 | 6,529 |
| Taiwan | 10 | 1:2,344,475 | 14,894 |
| Fiji | 9 | 1:99,377 | 1,883 |
| Guam | 8 | 1:20,015 | 3,029 |
| India | 8 | 1:95,883,173 | 728,828 |
| Jamaica | 8 | 1:358,743 | 8,527 |
| Norway | 8 | 1:642,786 | 47,258 |
| Switzerland | 8 | 1:1,026,614 | 63,315 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 8 | 1:4,291 | 379 |
| Austria | 7 | 1:1,216,491 | 80,919 |
| China | 7 | 1:195,331,652 | 10,124 |
| Tanzania | 7 | 1:7,563,088 | 70,659 |
| United States Virgin Islands | 7 | 1:15,768 | 2,111 |
| Sweden | 6 | 1:1,641,126 | 116,183 |
| Bermuda | 5 | 1:13,056 | 1,849 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 1:1,467,097 | 5,611 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Malaysia | 5 | 1:5,898,845 | 196,803 |
| Senegal | 5 | 1:2,915,868 | 5,479 |
| Botswana | 4 | 1:546,732 | 22,624 |
| Guinea | 4 | 1:2,958,454 | 2,022 |
| Japan | 4 | 1:31,961,073 | 53,820 |
| Panama | 4 | 1:978,064 | 12,245 |
| Singapore | 4 | 1:1,376,926 | 28,409 |
| Mozambique | 3 | 1:9,087,190 | 7,315 |
| Albania | 2 | 1:1,457,028 | 24,967 |
| Cyprus | 2 | 1:442,438 | 9,493 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| Finland | 2 | 1:2,748,351 | 72,663 |
| Ghana | 2 | 1:13,510,346 | 23,679 |
| Macau | 2 | 1:300,815 | 1,009 |
| Poland | 2 | 1:19,004,374 | 199,659 |
| Russia | 2 | 1:72,061,528 | 727,117 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Vietnam | 2 | 1:46,323,027 | 5,235 |
| Andorra | 1 | 1:83,838 | 2,381 |
| Bahrain | 1 | 1:1,348,608 | 10,432 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Brunei | 1 | 1:418,731 | 3,893 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Egypt | 1 | 1:91,935,754 | 132,737 |
| Ethiopia | 1 | 1:97,546,262 | 29,669 |
| Hungary | 1 | 1:9,816,277 | 73,288 |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 1:85,822 | 4,091 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Monaco | 1 | 1:37,066 | 4,748 |
| Nicaragua | 1 | 1:6,021,090 | 8,768 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Nigeria | 1 | 1:177,142,758 | 748,972 |
| Oman | 1 | 1:3,687,971 | 14,390 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1:178,643,885 | 213,220 |
| Paraguay | 1 | 1:7,236,746 | 16,511 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1:178,781 | 3,800 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Sudan | 1 | 1:37,510,195 | 14,259 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Vanuatu | 1 | 1:263,276 | 2,086 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 81 | 1:54,690 | 4,453 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 9,795 | 1:2,489 | 355 |
| Wales | 601 | 1:2,610 | 172 |
| Guernsey | 24 | 1:1,361 | 233 |
| Jersey | 14 | 1:3,706 | 624 |
| Scotland | 10 | 1:374,322 | 10,959 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4,010 | 1:12,523 | 1,620 |
The alternate forms: Coleş (72) & Coleș (52) are calculated separately.
Coles (259) may also be a first name.
Coles Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Nicholas,' from nick. Cole, whence the diminutive Col-in. Coles is the patronymic or genitive form; compare Williams, Jenkins, Jones, &c.
'Havell, and Harvy Hafter, Jack Travell, and Cole Crafter.': Skelton, Why come ye nat to Courte.
This nick, of Nicholas has made an extraordinary impression upon English nomenclature (v. Colly, Collins, &c).
Rand' fil. Cole, Yorkshire, temp. 13th century: Cartularium Abbatiale de Whiteby, Ordinis S. Benedicti.
Johannes Cole, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.
Elias Cole, 1379: ibid.
1588. Married — Bazill Beconn and Anne Coale: St. Michael, Cornhill.
1665. — Thomas Coles and Honour Birde: ibid.
A Galwegian surname. One of the many forms assumed by the name Macdowall, which see. (2) English Coles is the patronymic form of Cole, diminutive of Nic(h)olas.
Cole’s (Son) Cole’s Son v. Cole.
(English) Descendant of Cole, a pet form of Nicholas (people, victory).
Places in cos. Wilts and Somerset. Also a very ancient Teutonic personal name. In Domesd. it appears as a baptismal-in the H.R. as a family name.
A genitive form of Cole.
An abbreviation of Nicholas, common among the Dutch.
From the Flemish, Cools; a personal name.
Cole,Coles. —Essentially south of England names, especially in the south - west, rarely occurring north of a line drawn west from the Wash. Cole is best distributed and has its principal homes in Devon and Wilts. Coles is most numerous in Somerset. Both names, strangely enough, are rare in Cornwall. Cole was a very ancient Teutonic name; there are places of the name in Somerset and Wilts, a circumstance that may perhaps explain the frequency of both names in Somerset and of Cole in Wilts.
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Coles Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Coles Come From? nationality or country of origin
Coles is most common in The United States. It can be rendered as: Coleş or Coleș. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Coles? popularity and diffusion
The surname Coles is the 10,205th most commonly used family name on earth. It is borne by around 1 in 132,038 people. It occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 38 percent of Coles reside; 37 percent reside in Northern Europe and 37 percent reside in British Isles. It is also the 553,262nd most numerous given name at a global level, borne by 259 people.
This surname is most frequent in The United States, where it is held by 19,018 people, or 1 in 19,059. In The United States Coles is primarily concentrated in: Maryland, where 9 percent live, New York, where 7 percent live and California, where 6 percent live. Outside of The United States this last name occurs in 99 countries. It is also common in England, where 32 percent live and Australia, where 10 percent live.
Coles Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Coles has changed over time. In The United States the number of people carrying the Coles last name expanded 474 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 183 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Wales it expanded 310 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it expanded 3,530 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it declined 79 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Coles Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Coles surname is primarily Catholic (61%) in Ireland.
In The United States Coles are 4.92% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 51.69% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Coles earn in different countries varies greatly. In Italy they earn 27.9% less than the national average, earning €21,652 per year; in Norway they earn 1.67% more than the national average, earning 351,864 kr per year; in South Africa they earn 26.28% more than the national average, earning R 300,096 per year; in United States they earn 4.26% less than the national average, earning $41,312 USD per year and in Canada they earn 3.63% more than the national average, earning $51,486 CAD per year.
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