Collé

surname · Latin script

Meaning: past participle of coller

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/kɔle/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Collé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 51K
  • DMDominica1 in 74K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,432 people

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Colle in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

past participle of coller

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Collé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Collé is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,4321 in 148K1.4K—1
BE Belgium9771 in 12K977Collé40
US United States3421 in 973K374Colle166
NL Netherlands3371 in 51K337Collé25
AR Argentina741 in 615K74——
NO Norway401 in 137K40—4
DM Dominica11 in 74K1——

1,432 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Collé is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Colle, Collè

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Cölle, Colle

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Netherlands

    Also written Colle

  • Turkish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Çölle, Colle

  • French name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, Pakistan

    Languages: French, Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Colle

15 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Collé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In lou, to stick

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960197019801990Ivo Collé, b. 1962Franco Collé, b. 1978Corinne Collé, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Collé, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Collé
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007337#6,028
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#107,089

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Collé mean, and where does it come from?
past participle of coller Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Collé?
A machine transcription gives /kɔle/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Collé have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Collé, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Collé most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Collé is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Collé?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,432 people named Collé, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Collé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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