girls:
511 births since 1962
#5205 (9th percentile)
boys:
80.2k births since 1895
#358 (92nd percentile)
overall:
80.7k births since 1895
#793 (90th percentile)
The name Collin is the #793 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80,697 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 89.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #358 (92.2% percentile) for all time with 80,186 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #5,205 (8.9% percentile) for all time with 511 births since 1962.
Collin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1962 for girls). Birth data for Collin is available in 116 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 54 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 Collin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Collin reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 85.3% percentile (ranked #133) with 1,442 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 1,676 births per million (ranked 85.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Collin ranks #439 for boys (51.9% percentile) with 335 births per million, which is 20.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Collin reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #811) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Collin is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #936 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Collin".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Collin", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 23 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Colin" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Colin..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Collin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Collin is pronounced as KAH-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-luhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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