Colás
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular voseo present indicative of colar
Colás is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 20K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 251K
- BEBelgium1 in 33K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
2,475 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Spain
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Colas in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 3 more.
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)second-person singular voseo present indicative of colar
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Colás 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,475 | 1 in 20K | 2.5K | Colas | 100 |
| US United States | — | 1,323 | 1 in 251K | 1.3K | Colas | 179 |
| BE Belgium | — | 360 | 1 in 33K | 360 | Colas | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 140 | 1 in 1.5M | 140 | Colas | 41 |
| AR Argentina | — | 99 | 1 in 459K | 99 | Colas | 23 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 55 | 1 in 153K | 55 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | 3 |
| DM Dominica | — | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
| HT Haiti | #593 | — | — | listed | Colas | 8 |
2,475 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Antonio Sacristán Colásb. 1902ESSpanish businessperson, economist and politician (1902-1986)
- Iván Colás Costab. 1946CUCuban actor (1946-2021)
- Rafael P. Colas Longaresb. 1959chess player
- Carol Rodríguez i Colásb. 1982ESCatalan film director
- Itea Benedictob. 1987ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
- Marina Rodríguez i ColásESscriptwriter
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Colás mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular voseo present indicative of colar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Colás have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Colás, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colas.
- Where is Colás most common?
- Colás is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 20 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Colás?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,475 people named Colás, about 1 in 20 thousand residents.
- How common is Colás compared with other names?
- In Haiti, Colás is the 593rd most common surname of 1,519 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/col%C3%A1sThe 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, “Colás” — the 593rd most common surname in Haiti. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.