Colquhoun

English

Etymology

Habitational surname borrowed from Scottish Gaelic, possibly from cùil (“nook, angle, corner”) + cumhang (“narrow, close”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈhuːn/

Proper noun

Colquhoun (plural Colquhouns)

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 270:

     For more than 750 years the lochside village of Luss has been the home of the chiefs of the Colquhoun clan.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Colquhoun is the 33772^th 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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Colquhoun”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 356.