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- Wiktionary: ColasCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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/kɔ.la/ · Walloon
01 / Meaning & origin
Colas is a masculine given name documented in Norman and Walloon. English Wiktionary records an etymology for it.
Separate records with matching spellings: Colas (French, Norman)
Compare Norman Colas.
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France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte), 2024: 10 boys (rank 3155).
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03 / By the numbers
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1900–2025 Spelling: COLAS
Recorded category boys
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Source: Insee · Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
« VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1901 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1902 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1903 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1904 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1905 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1906 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1907 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1908 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1909 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1910 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1911 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1912 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1913 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1914 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1915 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1916 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1917 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1918 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1919 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1920 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1921 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1922 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1923 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1924 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1925 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1926 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1927 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1928 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1929 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1930 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1931 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1932 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1933 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1934 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1935 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1936 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1937 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1938 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1939 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1940 | 5 | 727 | rounded |
| 1941 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1942 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1943 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1944 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1945 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1946 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1947 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1948 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1949 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1950 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1951 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1952 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1953 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1954 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1955 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1956 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1957 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1958 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1959 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1960 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1961 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1962 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1963 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1964 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1965 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1966 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1967 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1968 | 5 | 1,648 | rounded |
| 1969 | 5 | 1,562 | rounded |
| 1970 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1971 | 5 | 1,850 | rounded |
| 1972 | 5 | 1,730 | rounded |
| 1973 | 5 | 2,185 | rounded |
| 1974 | 5 | 1,637 | rounded |
| 1975 | 5 | 1,752 | rounded |
| 1976 | 5 | 1,787 | rounded |
| 1977 | 5 | 1,338 | rounded |
| 1978 | 5 | 1,351 | rounded |
| 1979 | 10 | 1,011 | rounded |
| 1980 | 10 | 1,350 | rounded |
| 1981 | 25 | 707 | rounded |
| 1982 | 10 | 1,065 | rounded |
| 1983 | 10 | 1,244 | rounded |
| 1984 | 15 | 929 | rounded |
| 1985 | 20 | 841 | rounded |
| 1986 | 10 | 1,143 | rounded |
| 1987 | 25 | 709 | rounded |
| 1988 | 20 | 896 | rounded |
| 1989 | 20 | 874 | rounded |
| 1990 | 25 | 798 | rounded |
| 1991 | 25 | 749 | rounded |
| 1992 | 15 | 1,185 | rounded |
| 1993 | 15 | 1,078 | rounded |
| 1994 | 10 | 1,572 | rounded |
| 1995 | 15 | 1,150 | rounded |
| 1996 | 20 | 918 | rounded |
| 1997 | 15 | 1,216 | rounded |
| 1998 | 20 | 1,083 | rounded |
| 1999 | 25 | 932 | rounded |
| 2000 | 25 | 933 | rounded |
| 2001 | 35 | 805 | rounded |
| 2002 | 30 | 875 | rounded |
| 2003 | 30 | 1,005 | rounded |
| 2004 | 20 | 1,349 | rounded |
| 2005 | 20 | 1,393 | rounded |
| 2006 | 25 | 1,254 | rounded |
| 2007 | 10 | 2,211 | rounded |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,224 | rounded |
| 2009 | 10 | 2,620 | rounded |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,580 | rounded |
| 2011 | 15 | 1,837 | rounded |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,354 | rounded |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,950 | rounded |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,974 | rounded |
| 2015 | 5 | 3,854 | rounded |
| 2016 | 10 | 3,023 | rounded |
| 2017 | 5 | 4,427 | rounded |
| 2018 | 5 | 4,114 | rounded |
| 2019 | 5 | 3,586 | rounded |
| 2020 | 15 | 2,149 | rounded |
| 2021 | 5 | 4,386 | rounded |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,810 | rounded |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,534 | rounded |
| 2024 | 10 | 3,155 | rounded |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “COLAS” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Released 2026-07-16 · Retrieved 2026-10-14 · LO-2.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Colas— “victory of the people”
The French language generally has both varieties of contractions, perhaps according as it was influenced by the Provençal or the Frank pronunciation, and thus its Nicolas becomes Nicole or Colas, sometimes Colin. Thence it has been suggested that Colin Maillard, or blind-man’s-buff, may be Colin seeking Maillard, the diminutive of Marie, which would drolly correspond to the conjecture that the “N or M” of our catechism and marriage service, instead of being merely the…
The French language generally has both varieties of contractions, perhaps according as it was influenced by the Provençal or the Frank pronunciation, and thus its Nicolas becomes Nicole or Colas, sometimes Colin. Thence it has been suggested that Colin Maillard, or blind-man’s-buff, may be Colin seeking Maillard, the diminutive of Marie, which would drolly correspond to the conjecture that the “N or M” of our catechism and marriage service, instead of being merely the consonants of _nomen_, stand for Nicholas and Mary as the most probable names. The French Colin is probably Nicolas, and is the parent of all the Arcadian Colins who piped to their shepherdesses either in the rural theatricals of the ancient regime, in Chelsea china, or in pastoral poetry. The Scottish Colin may, perhaps, have been slightly influenced by French taste, but he bears no relation to Nicolas, being, in fact, formed from the Irish missionary, Saint Columba. The true Scottish descendant of the patron of scholars is to be found in that quaint portrait, Baillie Nicol Jarvie.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter IV (Historical Greek Names Consisting Of Epithets), Section VI (Pan) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national
Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · LO-2.0 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
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