Colbert

Colbert is the 1,609th most common surname in the United States, shared by 21,720 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 13,800.

By the numbers

People: 21,720
Rank: 1,609th
How common: 1 in 13,800
Per 100,000: 7.3

Where the name comes from

From a Germanic personal name, composed of Proto-Germanic *kōlaz (“cool, cold; calm”) and *berhtaz (“bright”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Colbert described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 44.7%
White, not Hispanic 42.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Colbert

Claudette Colbert (1903–1996)American actress
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683)French statesman
Stephen Colbert (born 1964)American comedian and writer
Edwin H. Colbert (1905–2001)American paleontologist
Gregory Colbert (born 1960)Canadian photographer
Juliette Colbert de Barolo (1785–1864)1785-1864, philanthropist woman

People named Colbert with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Colbert

Also a first name

Colbert has been given to 839 American babies as a first name since 1886, peaking in 1931. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.