# Colbeck (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/colbeck/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 335 |
| US rank (2010) | 60,196 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 921,628 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.0% (319 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Colebeck |

## Etymology

A topographic or habitational surname, from Old English cald (“cold”) + bæċ (“beck, stream, brook”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Colbeck in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 98% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Colbeck in the United Kingdom.

## People named Colbeck

- William Colbeck, British explorer (1871–1930)

## Similar surnames

Cleaves, Clabaugh, Clavijo, Coolbaugh.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.