Given name & surname · also Celtic, Gaelic
Coll
“high”
Coll is used as a given name and a surname. One Celtic interpretation is “high.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Celtic interpretation is “high.”
Where it comes from
A possible origin is Celtic, although the derivation remains uncertain.
How it developed
Coll is used as a form of Nicholas.
The story
In English use, Coll is a shortened form of Nicholas. The history of Nicholas gives this family its wider story. Nicholas’s Christian associations include Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra in Lycia, about whom virtually nothing factual is known.
Explained through its name family
Coll’s family of names
In English usage, Coll is a diminutive of Nicholas. In English usage, Coll has a later derivative in Collette. Coll is an English adaptation of Colla.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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