Collins

What Collins means

Means “descendant of Coileán”

As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Coileáin (“descendant of Coileán”), see Cullen, McQuillan, and McCallion.

Source: Wiktionary, “Collins” (revision 94538447), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Collins?

US: Rising: up from #703 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,286 girls got the name (#241 that year). First in the US records in 1982.

How common

• About 1 in 1,250 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (4.07 per 1,000 girls), IA (3.23 per 1,000 girls), NE (2.96 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Collins is #241 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 96.4% of US babies named Collins were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kollyns293 US
• Kollins135 US
• Collyns100 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Collin
• Colin
• Collings
• Colling
• Collis
• Colins
• Collen
• Cullan

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Collins

Girls

• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*
• Leighton#342“leek + settlement”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Callen#516Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #516 vs #2,952 in 2025
• Emmett#121Diminutive of Emma, meaning “entire”^*
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*
• Jameson#137Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #137 vs #1,093 in 2025
• Oakley#454“oak + woodland clearing, glade”^*
• Remington#307“settlement by the boundary stream”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Collins’s. Rank is US 2025.