Colin

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: French

Meaning

Colin is an English-language masculine given name. It has two distinct origins: A diminutive form of "Colle", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas. This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin.

From Wikipedia

Colin first appears in the data in 1958 and has been recorded in 56 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 2003 with 181 babies (rank #115 that year). It was not in the 2017 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Colin

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Colin yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

3,430
Total babies (all years)
56
Years in the data
181
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19581#883
19591#855
19601#928
19621#965
19631#966
19641#958
19652#871
19662#895
19675#718
19686#697
196911#591
19706#742
19715#788
19728#672
197326#372
197420#433
197510#594
197621#419
197718#446
197813#548
197921#428
198011#608
198121#444
198218#491
198329#368
198438#324
198539#331
198652#274
198750#300
198853#279
198944#339
199073#244
199184#210
199290#203
199390#208
199474#244
1995106#184
199688#208
1997138#146
1998139#152
1999135#149
2000147#143
2001129#161
2002146#143
2003181#115
2004162#116
2005149#124
2006123#138
2007110#156
2008127#129
2009118#137
2010101#153
2011108#140
201291#162
201382#166
2014104#138