Colak surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Colak surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 107 people carried this name — #142,819 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted.

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In Belgium’s population register

At least 283 people named Colak live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Limburg.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Limburg 96
Hainaut 57
Antwerp 46
Liège 42
Brussels-Capital 21
East Flanders 13
Luxembourg Province 8

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

236 people named Colak live in Switzerland.

They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Basel-Stadt 52
Aargau 34
Basel-Landschaft 34
Zurich 31
Solothurn 16
Thurgau 13
St. Gallen 12
Bern 12

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 54 people named Colak.

Most of them — 42 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 5 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 42
Haut-Rhin 4
Oise 3
Puy-de-Dôme 3
Rhône 1
Paris 1

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

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