Coulon Surname Meaning & Coat of Arms

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What Coulon means

Spellings drift, and Coulon is where Coulomb drifted for some families. Its meaning, shared with Coulomb, is “Dove”.

Records show Coulon as one of the forms Coulomb took over time. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. The 2010 census count for Coulon in the United States was 953, good for rank 25,833. French civil records give 20,486 births under the name Coulon from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1951–1960. There were 1,090 such births in the 1890s and 1,631 in the 1990s.

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