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    The surname Colligan

    An Irish surname, carried by 1,986 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C425

    Colligan: #14,902 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Colligan #14,902, 1,986 people Colligan: #14,902 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Colligan #14,902, 1,986 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Colligan is more common than 90.8% of them.

    Origin

    Irish origin

    Variant of Colgan.

    One of 880 Irish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,986 people named Colligan in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 155,461 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,994.

    #14,902
    rank among US surnames
    1,986
    people in 2010
    0.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #13,893)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #14,893Sweetman1,987155,383
    #14,902Enderle1,986155,461

    Who is named Colligan

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    92% of people named Colligan identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 92%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 3.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.6%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Colligan

    Colligan has the Soundex code C425, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C425.

    Other Irish surnames

    All 880 Irish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Colligan come from?
    Variant of Colgan.
    How common is the surname Colligan?
    1,986 people in the United States had the surname Colligan in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 155,461 Americans. It ranked 14,902nd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Colligan?
    In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Colligan identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.5% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Colligan getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,994 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,986 in 2010, down 0.4%.