Colvelle Surname

2,483,783rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 60 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
South Africa
Highest density in:
South Africa

Colvelle Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Colvelle Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
South Africa591:918,26658,838
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582
Scotland11:3,743,21632,299

Colvelle Last Name Facts

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

The last name Colvelle is more commonly found in South Africa than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here to see other potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Colvelle? popularity and diffusion

This last name is the 2,483,783rd most commonly used surname internationally. It is borne by around 1 in 121,459,099 people. The surname is predominantly found in Africa, where 98 percent of Colvelle live; 98 percent live in Southern Africa and 98 percent live in South Bantu Africa.

The surname is most frequent in South Africa, where it is carried by 59 people, or 1 in 918,266. In South Africa Colvelle is most numerous in: KwaZulu-Natal, where 97 percent reside, Free State, where 2 percent reside and Gauteng, where 2 percent reside. Beside South Africa this last name exists in one country. It is also common in Argentina, where 2 percent reside.

Colvelle Last Name Statistics demography

Colvelle earn marginally less than the average income. In South Africa they earn 0.73% less than the national average, earning R 235,908 per year.

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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
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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 Colvelle
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