Colville is used as a family name or surname in French and Gaelic. It is 8 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Colville
No. of characters: 8
Origin: French and Gaelic
Meaning: From Col, a neck, strait, or defile; a pass between hills and ville, a town, the place in the gorge or pass of the dell The village on the neck of the hill, or near the hazel-wood; Col, Gaelic, hazel and ville, a village, changed into well. Coldwell denotes the uality of the water, a cold spring. Coldwold, the hazel-wild, or bushy place of hazels

How popular is Colville?

Colville is common in England.

Colville is ranked 82581 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Colville bearers increased by 0.6304176 per cent in 2010 US census to 1277 since 2000, the surname slipped by 1052 spots and ranked at 20709. The last name was found in around 4 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 93.74 94.41
Hispanic or Latino 2.51 1.73
Others 1.64 1.65
Black 1.1 0.79
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.63 0.55
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.39 0.87
Colville is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Scotland is ahead in terms of density. Around 5284 people have been found who wears Colville as their family name. Colville is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
3,340 Jamaica3
32,086 Mexico3
1,389 Grenada3
12,161 Wales2
723,167 Indonesia2
1,500,361 India2
52,939 United Arab Emirates2
35,969 Denmark2
6,353 Panama2
6,266 Luxembourg2
124,220 Italy2
6,820 Angola1
2,057 Isle of Man1
151,601 Spain1
7,292 Vietnam1
26,040 Trinidad and Tobago1
3,071 Jersey1
31,584 Peru1
172,258 Germany1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
24,176 Qatar1
821 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1
492,292 Ukraine1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
2,115 Costa Rica40
3,075 Cyprus34
57,220 Netherlands27
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
3,961 Ireland93
117,149 France73
14,717 Chile54
Countries with hundreds of Colville:
5,422 Australia550
9,873 Canada401
1,795 Scotland400
16,752 South Africa365
2,873 New Zealand265
1,995 Northern Ireland119
Countries with thousands of Colville:
19,686 United States1,638
5,969 England1,188
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Caster or Moulder/Molder James Colville from Scotland aboard the Arrick from Glasgow during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 38 years old when he arrived in USA on February 22, 1849. Alexander Colville (37) Immigrant, 25 years old Alexander Colville, Carpenter John Colville, 50 years old Judy Colville, Jane Colville (48) Immigrant, 22 years old Chas. Colville, Immigrant Jane Colville, 3 years old Jane Colville, and 7 other Colville around 75% of whom were workman migrated to US from Belfast, Greenock and Liverpool.

Colville Namesakes

  • John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, Politician
  • Fergus Colville, Film director
  • Andrew Colville, Screenwriter
  • Lorenza Colville, Actor
  • John Colville, 1st Baron Clydesmuir, Politician

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