The Collard surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,053 people carried this name — #8,178 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 73,000 people counted. That is up 4% from 3,903 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Collard surname
From a medieval pejorative form of Coll, from the given name Nicholas.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Collard» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 4,006 people named Collard 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 Liège.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 2,899 people named Collard.
99 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 83 départements, most often Marne.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 118 people named Collard live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
41 people named Collard live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Valais.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Collard in American newspapers,
1914–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 20,779 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Collard,
with a public archive behind them.
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Pierre Paul Royer-Collard 1763–1845 · politician -
Isaäc Collard 1774–1828 · politician -
William Frederick Collard 1776–1866 · poet -
William Frederick Collard 1776–1866 · poet
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Florence Haigh d. 1937
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Pierre Joseph Collard 1752–1843 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Collard.
- Coli 163 · U.S. census
- Colier 101 · U.S. census
- Colin 8,318 · U.S. census
- Coll 2,704 · U.S. census
- Colla 520 · U.S. census
- Collado 9,201 · U.S. census
- Collart 106 · U.S. census
- Collas 152 · U.S. census
- Colle 342 · U.S. census
- Collen 577 · U.S. census
- Collet 971 · U.S. census
- Colletta 613 · U.S. census
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