The Collazo surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 14,369 people carried this name — #2,521 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 20,500 people counted. That is up 26% from 11,365 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 2,191 people named Collazo 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 Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
35 people named Collazo live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
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
Collazo in American newspapers,
1917–1922.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 8,564 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Collazo in Australian newspapers,
1950s–1970s.
84 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Collazo. The most, 79, date from the 1950s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in New South Wales, at 1.4 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Collazo.
Who carried it
People named Collazo,
with a public archive behind them.
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Rosendo Collazo 1875– · military personnel -
María Collazo 1884–1942 · trade unionist -
Francisco E. Collazo 1888–1964 · playwright -
Rosa Collazo 1904–1988 · politician -
Enrique Collazo Tejada 1848–1921 · military personnel
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Enrique Collazo Tejada 1848–1921 · military personnel
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Collazo,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States379 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 135
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 101
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 98
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 27
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 9
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 6
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 2
- U.S. service members who died in the Korean War 1
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Example: U.S. war memorial War record Either M. CollazoBorn 1927; from Puerto Rico. U.S. Army, heavy weapons infantryman; killed in action 1951 in North Korea. Buried at Puerto Rico National Cemetery, Puerto Rico.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Jose CollazoBorn 1901. Enlisted 1942 at Fort Jay Governors Island, New York; laundry worker from New York County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1962, buried at Long Island National Cemetery, New York.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Saverio CollazoArrived at New York in 1897 aboard the Augusta Victoria from Naples, aged 6; farmer. From Brienza, Potenza, Italy; bound for New York.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted)
Showing 3 of 379 records for Collazo in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain); U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
France1 record
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Natalia CollazoBorn 1910 in Spain; died 2000 in Les Clayes-sous-Bois (Yvelines).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Collazo.
- Coll 2,704 · U.S. census
- Colla 520 · U.S. census
- Collado 9,201 · U.S. census
- Collard 4,053 · 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
- Collett 8,064 · U.S. census
- Colletta 613 · U.S. census
- Collette 4,927 · U.S. census
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