Cóllar
surname · Latin script
Cóllar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”).
- ESSpain1 in 65K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 66K
- USUnited States1 in 186K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)
1,787 people, 2010
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 Collar in AR Argentina, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)- Middle Englishcoler(measured from records)
- Old FrenchcolerModern French collier(measured from records)
- Late Latincollāre(measured from records)
- Latincollāris(measured from records)
- Latin rootcollum“neck”(measured from records)
From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐍃 (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cóllar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 1,787 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | Collar | 81 |
| ES Spain | — | 766 | 1 in 65K | 766 | Collar | 69 |
| AR Argentina | — | 687 | 1 in 66K | 687 | Collar | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 334 | 1 in 634K | 334 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| PY Paraguay | #592 | — | — | — | Collar | 11 |
1,787 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cóllar mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from collum (“neck”). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Cóllar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Cóllar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled collar.
- Where is Cóllar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cóllar is densest in Spain — about 1 in 65 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cóllar?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,787 people named Cóllar in 2010, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Cóllar compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Cóllar is the 592nd most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Cóllar” — the 592nd most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.