Colin

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colin".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
445
Peak Births
25
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1960
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#740
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
131,713
Peak Births
5,122
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
90.1%
Current Percentile
65.4%
Peak Rank
#85
Current Rank
#316
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Colin

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Colin. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 46.0% confident that Colin is pronounced as KAH-lihn. The next most likely pronunciation is KOH-lihn, at 39.7% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Colin. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Colin, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KAW-lihn (2 syllables)
11 names 86.3k births
K AO1 L IH0 N

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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.