Collie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Collie

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,172 babies named Collie between 1881 and 2001, spanning 121 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Collie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Collie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 354 additional births since 1898.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Collie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Collie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Alabama, which accounts for 61 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Collie in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Collie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,172 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.