Colella
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Cola com sufixo fem
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˌkoʊˈɫɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Colella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 64K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 78K
- USUnited States1 in 80K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
de Cola com sufixo fem. sing. -ella.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colella 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 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Colella | 74 |
| US United States | 4,150 | 1 in 80K | 4.2K | Colella | 285 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Colella | 7 |
| AR Argentina | 898 | 1 in 51K | 898 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Colella | 76 |
| AU Australia | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Colella | 59 |
| CH Switzerland | 341 | 1 in 25K | 341 | Colella | 17 |
| UY Uruguay | 59 | 1 in 57K | 59 | — | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Tommy Colellab. 1918USAmerican football player (1918-1992)
- Leonardo Colellab. 1930BRBrazilian footballer (1930-2010)
- Rick Colellab. 1951USAmerican swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, world champion
- Bruno Colellab. 1955ITItalian actor, film director and screenwriter
- Antonio Colellab. 1961ITItalian rugby union player
- Giovanni Colellab. 1966ITItalian football coach and player
- Jenn Colellab. 1974USAmerican actress
- EDXb. 1976CHnot in their usual nameSwiss disc jockey and musician
- Gianluca Colellab. 1981ITItalian linguist (born 1981)
- Hugo Colellab. 1999FRFrench association football player
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,971 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,638 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,440 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 898 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 341 | #3,877 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 59 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Colella come from?
- de Cola com sufixo fem. sing. -ella. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Colella?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌkoʊˈɫɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Colella mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Cola com sufixo fem.
- In which country does Colella have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Colella in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colella.
- How common is the name Colella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,150 people named Colella in 2010, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colellaThe 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, “Colella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.