# Colcord (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/colcord/  
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 Middle High German.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 638 |
| US rank (2010) | 35,294 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 483,927 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.8% (633 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Occupational surname for a lime burner, from an agent derivative of Middle High German kalc (“lime”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Colcord 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) | 93% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 2.0% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Colcord in the United States.

## People named Colcord

- Roswell K. Colcord, American politician (1839-1939)

## Similar surnames

Clouser, Colegrove, Cleghorn, Chalker, Colgrove, Caligiuri.

## 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.