Collison
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname originating as a patronymic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑɫɪsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Collison is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A surname originating as a patronymic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Collison counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.8K | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 24 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | — |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Collison 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 English, son of Coll (see Colin (i))
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
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)
- Levi Collisonb. 1875GBBritish politician (1875-1965)
- Robert Lewis Collisonb. 1914GB(1914-1989)
- Frank Collisonb. 1950USAmerican actor
- Nick Collisonb. 1980USAmerican basketball player (born 1980)
- Darren Collisonb. 1987USAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
- Jack Collisonb. 1988GBWelsh footballer (born 1988)
- Patrick Collisonb. 1988IEIrish entrepreneur
- Meghan Collisonb. 1988CACanadian model
- John Collisonb. 1990IEIrish businessman
- David CollisonUSReform Party USA official
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.8K | #11,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,235 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 24 | #601 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 22 | #80,196 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 22 | #78,058 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #149,927 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #219,463 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Collison mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Collison?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɫɪsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Collison have the most bearers?
- Collison is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Collison?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/collisonThe 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, “Collison”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.