Colón Surname
Approximately 6,308 people bear this surname
Colón Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Rico | 5,408 | 1:656 | 113 |
| United States | 451 | 1:803,678 | 61,918 |
| Dominican Republic | 270 | 1:38,640 | 2,109 |
| Spain | 60 | 1:779,201 | 32,544 |
| Mexico | 51 | 1:2,433,847 | 20,676 |
| Argentina | 12 | 1:3,561,951 | 138,643 |
| Venezuela | 9 | 1:3,356,009 | 33,931 |
| Guatemala | 9 | 1:1,786,963 | 6,100 |
| Honduras | 6 | 1:1,469,407 | 5,474 |
| Brazil | 4 | 1:53,518,583 | 632,670 |
| Ecuador | 4 | 1:3,976,462 | 28,589 |
| Costa Rica | 4 | 1:1,195,017 | 6,919 |
| El Salvador | 2 | 1:3,171,944 | 6,376 |
| Peru | 2 | 1:15,892,062 | 51,966 |
| Cuba | 2 | 1:5,761,358 | 13,825 |
| France | 2 | 1:33,211,361 | 423,184 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Denmark | 1 | 1:5,644,715 | 93,155 |
| Curaçao | 1 | 1:157,247 | 1,313 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Panama | 1 | 1:3,912,258 | 17,195 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Sweden | 1 | 1:9,846,757 | 347,448 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Canada | 1 | 1:36,845,591 | 464,108 |
The alternate forms: Colon (167,880), Colòn (26), Colõn (2) & Cólon (2) are calculated separately.
Colón (15) may also be a first name.
Colón Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Colón Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Colón is carried by more people in Puerto Rico than any other country or territory. It can appear as: Colon, Colòn, Colõn or Cólon. For other potential spellings of Colón click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Colón? popularity and diffusion
The last name is the 77,538th most frequently used family name at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 1,155,286 people. This last name is predominantly found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Colón are found; 90 percent are found in Caribbean and 90 percent are found in Hispano-Caribbean. It is also the 2,900,335th most frequently held first name globally, held by 15 people.
The surname is most commonly held in Puerto Rico, where it is borne by 5,408 people, or 1 in 656. In Puerto Rico it is most common in: Carolina, where 40 percent are found, Villalba, where 13 percent are found and Juana Díaz, where 5 percent are found. Other than Puerto Rico it exists in 26 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 7 percent are found and The Dominican Republic, where 4 percent are found.
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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 Colón
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