Colquhounとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəˈhuːn/
• 韻: -uːn

固有名詞

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.

統計情報

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