Colman

At the 2020 census, 3,711 Americans bore the surname Colman — 8,519th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 80,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,711
Rank: 8,519th
How common: 1 in 80,500
Per 100,000: 1.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From the Irish saints' name Colmán, diminutive of Colm, from Latin columba (“dove”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 67.5%
Black, not Hispanic 17.5%
Hispanic or Latino 9.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Colman

Olivia Colman (born 1974)British actress
Ronald Colman (1891–1958)British actor
Eddie Colman (1936–1958)English footballer
Samuel Colman (1832–1920)American artist and writer
Gustavo Colman (born 1985)Argentine footballer
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836)English dramatist and writer

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

Surnames like Colman

Also a first name

Colman has been given to 1,045 American babies as a first name since 1909, peaking in 2002. 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.