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    The surname Collum

    A surname, carried by 3,568 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C450

    Collum: #9,144 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Collum #9,144, 3,568 people Collum: #9,144 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Collum #9,144, 3,568 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Collum is more common than 94.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 3,568 people named Collum in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 86,532 Americans. That is up 1.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,518.

    #9,144
    rank among US surnames
    3,568
    people in 2010
    1.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +1.4%
    change since 2000 (was #8,607)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #9,138Rupe3,57286,435
    #9,139Manalo3,57186,459
    #9,141Mishler3,56986,508
    #9,144Collum3,56886,532
    #9,147Pletcher3,56786,556

    Who is named Collum

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

    91% of people named Collum identified as white (not Hispanic), 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.6% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 91%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 5.0%
    • Two or more races 1.6%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Collum

    Collum has the Soundex code C450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C450.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Collum?
    3,568 people in the United States had the surname Collum in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 86,532 Americans. It ranked 9,144th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Collum?
    In the 2010 Census, 91% of people named Collum identified as white (not Hispanic), and 5.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
    Is the surname Collum getting more or less common?
    More common. 3,518 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,568 in 2010, up 1.4%.