Last Name COLVIN

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	The son of Colvin. COlvin or COlvinus was a Devonshire tenant-in-chief, and held his lands in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Coffin, which is still found in county Devon as a surname is in many cases but a variant. Local: From Colvend, a town in Kircudbrightshire, Scotland, the ancient name of which was 'Culwen,' derived from Joannes De Culwen.

Origin	English, Irish

Rank	1,495 (2000 US census)	1,501 (1990 US census)

Count	21,908 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

77.58%, or 16996 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
17.75%, or 3889 total occurrences, as black,
0.47%, or 103 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.54%, or 118 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.65%, or 361 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2%, or 438 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...