# Colville (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/colville/  
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 Norman.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Norman |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,277 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,709 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 241,774 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.6% (1,269 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Colvile |

## Etymology

Scottish habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Colleville, in Normandy, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kol (“coal”) + the French habitational suffix -ville.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Colville 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) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.1% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Similar surnames

Calvillo, Cleveland, Claypool, Caulfield, Claflin, Claypoole, Coulibaly, Cleaveland.

## 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.