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Colin
Pronounced /ˈkɒlɪn/
Rank in 2024
#334
Born in 2024
1,035
Peak year
2004 · #85
Origin
Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,035 boys were named Colin, about 1 in every 1,657.
- It peaked in 2004 with 5,122 babies, ranked #85.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 132,757 boys have been named Colin since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Colin per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.4Gen X1965–80
- 1.2Millennials1981–96
- 1.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 621 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 1,747 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,998 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 11,066 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Millennials: 35,478 babies, 1.17 per 1,000. Gen Z: 58,159 babies, 1.85 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 20,612 babies, 0.95 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
(given name): Coll + -in. Diminutive of Coll, a medieval short form of Nicholas. It has also been used to anglicize Irish Coileán and Scottish Gaelic Cailean.
- A male given name
- A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas, from Ancient Greek.
- A male given name from Old Irish
- A male given name from Irish
- Origin
- Irish, Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic
- Say it
- /ˈkɒlɪn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Colin, CC BY-SA 4.0.