Collect is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.
Collect is the form of the Collett. Has been derived from colet, an acolyte, the fourth of the minor sacerdotal orders; but its true meaning is "little Nicholas." Thus the parents of St. Colette, who held St. Nicholas in great of veneration, gave their child in baptism the name of "Colette, c'est à dire Petit Nichole."
Family name is the variant of Collett. Descendant of little Cole, a pet form of Nicholas meaning "people, victory".
The is a form of the Colet. Acolyth, acolythus, in our old English called a colet, was an inferior church servant, who next under the sub-deacon waited on the priests and deacons, and performed the meaner offices of lighting the candles, carrying the bread and wine, and paying other servile attendance. Kennet's Parochial Antiq. Burn's Eccles. Law.