Colli
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/koʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Topographic surname from colli, plural form of colle (“hill, hillock”).
- ARArgentina1 in 39K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 91K
- ITItaly≈1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Topographic surname from colli, plural form of colle (“hill, hillock”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Colli 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Colli | 25 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,323 | 1 in 91K | 2.3K | Colli | 76 |
| AR Argentina | — | 1,159 | 1 in 39K | 1.2K | Colli | 52 |
| US United States | — | 552 | 1 in 603K | 552 | Colli | 78 |
| FR France | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 256K | 26 | — | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Colli | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 114 | 1 in 30K | 114 | Colli | 13 |
| MX Mexico | #874 | — | — | 530 | Colli | 91 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Colli is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, dative/ablative singular of collis
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, inflection of collar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, to lose, misplace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, parcel, package
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nci, grandfather
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aymara, il^jplafsi I amadÁ Huahaat;oni:Pimpolloileíte arbo^l
as a wordVocabulario de la lengua aymara
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)- Enrico Collib. 1896ITItalian cross-country skier
- Tonino Delli Collib. 1923ITItalian cinematographer (1923–2005)
- Franco Delli Collib. 1929ITItalian cinematographer
- Ilio Collib. 1931ITItalian skier (1931–1953)
- Ernesto Collib. 1940ITItalian actor
- Ombretta Collib. 1943ITItalian politician, actress and singer
- Marco Collib. 1950ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Dalia Collib. 1976ITmakeup artist
- Daniele Collib. 1982ITItalian road cyclist
- David Mezab. 1988PYnot in their usual nameParaguayan footballer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.3K | #4,263 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.2K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 552 | #39,773 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 530 | #607 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 513 | #44,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 456 | #44,430 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 114 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 52 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 26 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Colli mean, and where does it come from?
- Topographic surname from colli, plural form of colle (“hill, hillock”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Colli?
- A machine transcription gives /koʎi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Colli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Colli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colli.
- How common is the name Colli?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,323 people named Colli, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
- How common is Colli compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Colli is the 874th most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Colli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Colli” — the 874th most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.