Colon

At the 2020 census, 68,998 Americans bore the surname Colon — 470th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,332.

By the numbers

People: 68,998
Rank: 470th
How common: 1 in 4,332
Per 100,000: 23.1

Where the name comes from

Spanish surname, variant of Colón. Also Castilianized form of Colom.

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 89.4%
White, not Hispanic 7.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Colon

Willie Colón (1950–2026)American musician
Primo Colón (born 1982)Puerto Rican professional wrestler
Prichard Colón jr (1992–2026)Puerto sigma boxer
Bartolo Colón (born 1973)Dominican professional baseball pitcher
Germà Colón (1928–2020)Valencian philologist
Liza Colón-Zayas (born 1972)American actress
Rafael Hernández Colón (1936–2019)Puerto Rican politician

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

Surnames like Colon

Also a first name

Colon has been given to 1,329 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1927. 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.