Colella

surname · Latin script

Meaning: de Cola com sufixo fem (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/koleʎa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Colella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country. Colella is also written โกเลยา in Thai.

  • ITItaly≈1 in 3.8Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 25K
  • ARArgentina1 in 51K

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)

≈15,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
285 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Colella in other scripts: Thai

(measured from records)
ColellaLatin(measured from records)
โกเลยาColella in Thai(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.

How to pronounce Colella

  • Spanish:/koleʎa/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Italian:/kolɛlla/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

de Cola com sufixo fem. sing. -ella.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Where the surname Colella is found

(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.

Where Colella is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈15,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Colella74
US United States4,1501 in 80K4.2KColella285
GB United Kingdom≈900 est.≈1 in 77K—Colella76
AR Argentina8981 in 51K898—1
CA Canada≈520 est.≈1 in 79K—Colella65
AU Australia≈440 est.≈1 in 62K—Colella59
CH Switzerland3411 in 25K341Colella17
UY Uruguay591 in 57K59——

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Colella is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Còlèllà

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Also written Colélla

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Italy

    Languages: Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian

    Also written Колелла

38 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1950196019701980Rick Colella, b. 1951Jenn Colella, b. 1974EDX, b. 1976
  • Rick Colellab. 1951USAmerican swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist, world champion
  • Jenn Colellab. 1974USAmerican actress
  • EDXb. 1976CHnot in their usual nameSwiss disc jockey and musician

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)
FormalDear Colella,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

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?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /koleʎa/; in Italian /kolɛlla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Colella mean?
Recorded meaning: de Cola com sufixo fem.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Colella?
Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Colella in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colella. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Argentina and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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 2026-10-13.

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