de Colon Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Dominican Republic
Highest density in:
Dominican Republic

de Colon Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

de Colon Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Dominican Republic231:453,60614,824
United States61:60,409,8221,028,827
Argentina11:42,743,414282,706
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109

The alternate forms: de Colón (2) are calculated separately.

de Colon (25) may also be a first name.

de Colon Last Name Facts

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

The surname de Colon is found in The Dominican Republic more than any other country or territory. It can be rendered as a variant: de Colón. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name de Colon? popularity and diffusion

It is the 3,485,539th most frequently used family name in the world It is held by approximately 1 in 227,735,810 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 100 percent of de Colon live; 75 percent live in Caribbean and 75 percent live in Hispano-Caribbean. de Colon is also the 2,136,160th most frequently held forename world-wide. It is borne by 25 people.

The last name is most commonly used in The Dominican Republic, where it is carried by 23 people, or 1 in 453,606. Without taking into account The Dominican Republic this last name is found in 4 countries. It is also found in The United States, where 19 percent are found and Argentina, where 3 percent are found.

de Colon Last Name Statistics demography

de Colon earn a lot less than the average income. In United States they earn 45.83% less than the national average, earning $23,375 USD 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 de Colon
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