Kolb

At the 2020 census, 11,199 Americans bore the surname Kolb — 3,140th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 26,700.

By the numbers

People: 11,199
Rank: 3,140th
How common: 1 in 26,700
Per 100,000: 3.8

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Borrowed from German Kolb surname, related to modern Kolben (“club”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Kolb

Claudia Kolb (born 1949)American swimmer
David A. Kolb (born 1939)American psychologist and philosopher (b. 12 December 1939)
Annette Kolb (1870–1967)German writer
Clarence Kolb (1874–1964)actor
Edward Kolb (born 1951)American physicist

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

Surnames like Kolb

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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.