How common is the surname Colville?

1,277 people in the United States had the surname Colville in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Colville?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Colville identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Colville getting more or less common?

More common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 0.6%.

The surname Colville

A Norman place surname, carried by 1,277 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex C414

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Colville is more common than 87.2% of them.

Origin

Norman origin

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.

Colville is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 128 Norman surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,277 people named Colville in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,269.

#20,709

rank among US surnames

1,277

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.6%

change since 2000 (was #19,657)

Who is named Colville

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

94% of people named Colville identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.6% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Variant spellings

Colvile

Surnames that sound like Colville

Calvillo

Colville has the Soundex code C414, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C414.

Other Norman surnames

All 128 Norman surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Colville come from?: 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.
How common is the surname Colville?: 1,277 people in the United States had the surname Colville in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 241,774 Americans. It ranked 20,709th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Colville?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Colville identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
What type of surname is Colville?: Colville is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Colville getting more or less common?: More common. 1,269 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,277 in 2010, up 0.6%.
What are other spellings of Colville?: Colvile.