# Collin (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/collin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Colin, Collen |
| US babies named this | 81,962 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 81,437 / 525 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 64, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Coll + -in. A spelling variant of Colin. From a medieval diminutive of Coll, a diminutive of Nicholas.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | 13,683 |
| 2012 | 8 | 12,473 |
| 2013 | 9 | 11,219 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,305 |
| 2015 | 13 | 8,565 |
| 2016 | 6 | 14,731 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,133 |
| 2018 | 14 | 7,856 |
| 2019 | 10 | 9,892 |
| 2020 | 8 | 11,316 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,100 |
| 2022 | 5 | 15,833 |
| 2023 | 16 | 7,002 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11,343 |
| 2025 | 6 | 13,572 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,175 | 174 |
| 2012 | 1,933 | 198 |
| 2013 | 1,839 | 211 |
| 2014 | 1,701 | 223 |
| 2015 | 1,383 | 261 |
| 2016 | 1,203 | 298 |
| 2017 | 995 | 342 |
| 2018 | 914 | 362 |
| 2019 | 820 | 382 |
| 2020 | 637 | 465 |
| 2021 | 730 | 423 |
| 2022 | 649 | 476 |
| 2023 | 614 | 487 |
| 2024 | 631 | 489 |
| 2025 | 613 | 493 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1998 | 6 | 1,821 |
| 1999 | 4 | 2,425 |
| 2003 | 4 | 2,857 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2,578 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2010 | 6 | 2,941 |
| 2011 | 6 | 2,892 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3,478 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Колин

## People named Collin

- Collin Sexton, American basketball player (born 1999)
- Isabelle Collin Dufresne, French-American artist and author (1935–2014)
- Collin Peterson, American politician
- Collin Morikawa, American professional golfer
- Collin Gillespie, American basketball player (born 1999)
- Collin Mitchell, curler
- Collin Wilcox, American actress (1935-2009)
- Collin Walcott, American musician, ethnomusicologist (1945–1984)
- Collin Quaner, German association football player
- Collin Martin, American professional soccer player
- Collin Altamirano, American tennis player
- Collin Veijer, Dutch motorcycle racer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.