girls:
354 births since 1898
#5362 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1881
#3433 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1881
#6219 (20th percentile)
The name Collie is the #6,219 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,526 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 19.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,433 (25.1% percentile) for all time with 1,172 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,362 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 354 births since 1898.
Collie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1898 for girls). Birth data for Collie is available in 93 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (89 years for boys and 45 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 Collie has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Collie were boys. Interestingly, until around 2014, the name was more popular for boys (77.1% boys from 1881 to 2013), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2014 to 2023).
For boys, Collie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #473) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 79 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
For girls, Collie reached its peak popularity in 1911, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #405) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 26 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Collie ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Collie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Collie is pronounced as KAH-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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