girls:
445 births since 1960
#5271 (8th percentile)
boys:
131.7k births since 1880
#250 (95th percentile)
overall:
132.2k births since 1880
#563 (93rd percentile)
The name Colin is the #563 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 132,158 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #250 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 131,713 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,271 (7.8% percentile) for all time with 445 births since 1960.
Colin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1960 for girls). Birth data for Colin is available in 133 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (133 years for boys and 44 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Colin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Colin reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 90.1% percentile (ranked #85) with 2,424 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2,424 births per million (ranked 90.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Colin ranks #316 for boys (65.4% percentile) with 547 births per million, which is 22.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Colin reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #917) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Colin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.0% confident that Colin is pronounced as KAH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KOH-lihn, at 39.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AA1 L IH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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