Last Name CULLEN

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Meaning Local: Of Cologne.
Local: from the town of Cullen in Banffshire � cul, a neck, lin, a lake; the place at the neck of the lake.
Local: From the town of Cullen, in Banffshire, Scotland. The derivation is uncertain. It may be from 'Cuillean,' holly, a place of holly-trees; or 'Cullin,' the place at the neck of the lake, from 'Cul,' a neck, the back of any thing, and 'lin,' a lake, a pond.
Holly.
Origin English, Scottish, Irish, Jewish, Dutch, Slovakian, Falkland, Zimbabwean

Rank 1,665 (2000 US census) 1,859 (1990 US census)
Count 19,665 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.09%, or 18503 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.73%, or 340 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.97%, or 191 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.31%, or 61 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.39%, or 273 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.52%, or 299 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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