# Colquhoun (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/colquhoun/  
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 Scottish Gaelic.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 674 |
| US rank (2010) | 33,772 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 458,079 people |
| Change since 2000 | +12% (602 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /kəˈhuːn/, 3 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Colquhoun 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) | 76% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 17% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Two or more races | 2.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Colquhoun in the United Kingdom and Australia.

## People named Colquhoun

- Alva Colquhoun, Australian swimmer
- Ithell Colquhoun, British artist (1906–1988)
- Sophie Colquhoun, British actress

## Similar surnames

Colson, Coulson, Clawson, Calkins, Clausen, Callaghan, Colgan, Callison, Claussen, Chilson, Collison, Cullison.

## 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.