Cól

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cól is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 90K(measured from records)
  • COColombia≈1 in 108K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 37K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

2,343 people

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Col in CO Colombia, BR Brazil, UY Uruguay.

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)

Derivation of Cól: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Cól
  1. Frenchcol(measured from records)
  2. Latincollum“neck”(measured from records)

Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum.

Sources 3

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cól 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 Cól is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2,3431 in 90K2.3KCol78
IT Italy≈1,700 est.≈1 in 37Klisted—30
FR France≈1,600 est.≈1 in 41K129—1
IN India≈580 est.≈1 in 2.3M2—10
CO Colombia≈460 est.≈1 in 108K—Col18
BE Belgium1141 in 103K114—2
UY Uruguay≈65 est.≈1 in 52K—Col13

2,343 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)

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

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Cöl, Çöl, Col, Čol, Çol

  • English surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Col, Coel, Cöl, Çöl, Çol

  • Turkish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, France, Canada, Netherlands

    Languages: Turkish, French

    Also written Çöl, Çol, Col, Cöl, Col'

3 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cól 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 Slovak, inch (unit of length)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Cól under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Cól mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from French col, from Latin collum (“neck”). Doublet of collum. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and 1 other source.
In which country does Cól have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Cól, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled col.
How common is the name Cól?
In Brazil, the national register counted 2,343 people named Cól, about 1 in 90 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, “Cól”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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