Collis

At the 2020 census, 2,956 Americans bore the surname Collis — 10,363rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 101,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,956
Rank: 10,363rd
How common: 1 in 101,000
Per 100,000: 0.99

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Variant of Collins, from the given name Colin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 85.6%
Black, not Hispanic 5.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Collis

Also a first name

Collis has been given to 1,319 American babies as a first name since 1894, peaking in 1952. 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.