Colquhoun
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Colquhoun (plural Colquhouns)
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Colquhoun is the 33772th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 674 individuals. Colquhoun is most common among White (76.11%) and Black/African American (16.77%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Colquhoun”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356.