Kolling
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. (Kolling): from the Germanic personal name Kolo, Colo + the suffix -ing denoting affiliation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑɫɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolling is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 309Kas Koelling
- BZBelize≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kolling itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 205 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 named Koelling, est.
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koelling in US United States, BR Brazil, IT Italy and 1 more and Kölling in DE Germany.
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)
1. (Kolling): from the Germanic personal name Kolo, Colo + the suffix -ing denoting affiliation. 2. topographic name from Middle Low German kolinge, a term denoting an area of forest to be cut for charcoal burning.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolling 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Koelling | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 2,157 | 1 in 98K | 2.2K | Koelling | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Kölling | 71 |
| US United States | — | 1,075as Koelling | 1 in 309K | 1.1K | Koelling | 205 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 432K | — | Koelling | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 113 | 1 in 52K | 113 | — | — |
| LR Liberia | #860 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Kolling | 1 |
| BZ Belize | #874 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Kolling | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Frederik August Vilhelm Kollingb. 1833DKDanish mathematician
- Harald Kollingb. 1835DKactor
- Valdemar Kollingb. 1863DKactor (1863-1912)
- Johannes Kollingb. 1887NLDutch fencer (1887-1969)
- Alfons Kollingb. 1922DEGerman archaeologist and prehistorian (1922-2003)
- Janne Kollingb. 1968DKDanish handball player
- Fabio Kollingb. 1985BRBrazilian footballer
- Christoph Kollingresearcher
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 21 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.2K | #4,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 791 | #31,375 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 736 | #30,061 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 690 | #33,164 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 113 | #4,828 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kolling come from?
- 1. (Kolling): from the Germanic personal name Kolo, Colo + the suffix -ing denoting affiliation. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kolling?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɫɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kolling mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. (Kolling): from the Germanic personal name Kolo, Colo + the suffix -ing denoting affiliation.
- In which country does Kolling have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Koelling in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kolling?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,157 people named Kolling, about 1 in 98 thousand residents.
- How common is Kolling compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Kolling is the 860th most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kolling?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kollingThe 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, “Kolling” — the 860th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.