Colless Surname
Approximately 846 people bear this surname
Colless Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 763 | 1:35,381 | 4,664 |
| Japan | 49 | 1:2,609,067 | 31,334 |
| New Zealand | 14 | 1:323,452 | 26,435 |
| United States | 5 | 1:72,491,787 | 1,102,614 |
| England | 4 | 1:13,929,515 | 290,718 |
| Thailand | 4 | 1:17,659,586 | 685,799 |
| Canada | 3 | 1:12,281,864 | 364,614 |
| Benin | 1 | 1:10,335,602 | 103,742 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1:132,249,194 | 811,426 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 8 | 1:3,046,921 | 80,371 |
Colless (195) may also be a first name.
Colless Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Colless Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Colless is more frequently found in Australia than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Colless? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 412,207th most frequently occurring surname in the world, borne by around 1 in 8,614,120 people. This last name is predominantly found in Oceania, where 92 percent of Colless reside; 92 percent reside in Australasia and 92 percent reside in Australia and New Zealand. Colless is also the 649,894th most widely held first name at a global level It is held by 195 people.
The surname is most widespread in Australia, where it is held by 763 people, or 1 in 35,381. In Australia it is primarily found in: New South Wales, where 62 percent are found, Queensland, where 24 percent are found and Victoria, where 7 percent are found. Outside of Australia this surname occurs in 10 countries. It is also found in Japan, where 6 percent are found and New Zealand, where 2 percent are found.
Colless Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Colless has changed over time. In England the number of people bearing the Colless surname fell 50 percent between 1881 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
- 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 Colless
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