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 occurs in Australia more than any other country or territory. It can appear as:. Click here for further possible spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Colless? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 412,207th most frequent surname worldwide It is held by around 1 in 8,614,120 people. Colless occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 92 percent of Colless are found; 92 percent are found in Australasia and 92 percent are found in Australia and New Zealand. Colless is also the 649,894th most widespread first name internationally It is held by 195 people.
This last name is most commonly occurring in Australia, where it is borne by 763 people, or 1 in 35,381. In Australia it is mostly found in: New South Wales, where 62 percent live, Queensland, where 24 percent live and Victoria, where 7 percent live. Not including Australia it is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Japan, where 6 percent live and New Zealand, where 2 percent live.
Colless Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The prevalency of Colless has changed over time. In England the share of the population with the last name 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
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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 Colless
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