Names

Variant of Colombo.

From a place name meaning “Cola’s town”.

Occupational name for a keeper of horses, derived from Middle English colt.

From a place name meaning “narrow corner” or “narrow wood” in Gaelic.

Spanish form of Colombo.

Either from Italian colomba “dove” indicating a dove keeper, or from the given name Colombo, which is derived from the same word. This was the Italian surname of the 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus.

From a derivative of Italian colomba “dove” indicating a house where doves were held.

Means “son of Colin 2”.

Anglicized form of Ó Coileáin. A famous bearer was Michael Collins, an Irish nationalist leader who was assassinated in 1922.

From a place name, itself derived from Old French chalenge meaning “disputed” and Middle English wode meaning “woods”.