Collin

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Collin is ranked 489th among boys in 2024 (627 births). Its best rank was 115th, in 1996.

Rank in 2024: #489down 2 from 2023
Births in 2024: 6270.04% of boys
Peak year: 19963,358 births
Best rank: #115in 1996
Since 1895: 80,817people given the name

Babies named Collin, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

80,817 boys have been named Collin in the United States since 1895, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 3,358 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 223 → 489).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 34%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Collin
1890s	5
1900s	14
1910s	119
1920s	191
1930s	149
1940s	405
1950s	488
1960s	848
1970s	2,019
1980s	6,132
1990s	23,752
2000s	27,831
2010s	15,609
2020s	3,255

In 1996, its biggest year

Collin was the 115th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.

Names that rose and fell with Collin

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.