Collins
Collins was given to 1,286 girls in 2025, #241 among girls’ names; 14,465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,000 Americans named Collins and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Collins by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Collins mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Collins is “an English surname originating as a patronymic from the given name Colin.”
Also “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
As an English surname, variant of Colin.
As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Coileáin (“descendant of Coileán”), see Cullen, McQuillan, and McCallion.
As a French surname, Americanized from Collin and Colette.
As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Kolenc, from koleno (“knee”) and the obsolete kolenc (“nipplewort”).
/ˈkɑlɪnz/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Collins?
#241 among girls’ names, 2025
Collins rose from #704 in 2015 to #241 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.23 to 0.80 per 1,000.
1,334 babies in 2023, the peak
Collins peaked in 2023, when 1,334 babies were given it (1,272 girls, #239 among girls’ names). The 1,334 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 100% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,286 | #241 | 48 | #2,684 |
| 2024 | 1,239 | #257 | 53 | #2,531 |
| 2023 | 1,272 | #239 | 62 | #2,276 |
| 2022 | 1,234 | #248 | 55 | #2,497 |
| 2021 | 1,001 | #328 | 47 | #2,699 |
| 2020 | 846 | #364 | 49 | #2,591 |
| 2019 | 765 | #409 | 48 | #2,664 |
| 2018 | 607 | #515 | 58 | #2,305 |
| 2017 | 494 | #615 | 52 | #2,456 |
| 2016 | 452 | #649 | 45 | #2,692 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 405 | #704 | 52 | #2,433 |
| 2014 | 329 | #840 | 53 | #2,405 |
| 2013 | 248 | #1,005 | 45 | #2,628 |
| 2012 | 265 | #963 | 44 | #2,721 |
| 2011 | 177 | #1,323 | 60 | #2,176 |
| 2010 | 116 | #1,774 | 57 | #2,265 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,021 | 30 | #3,565 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,823 | 26 | #3,943 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 33 | #3,316 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 31 | #3,395 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 35 | #2,964 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,674 | 28 | #3,376 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,690 | 22 | #3,853 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 29 | #3,117 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 33 | #2,812 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 34 | #2,681 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 33 | #2,616 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 21 | #3,504 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 38 | #2,234 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 28 | #2,688 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 25 | #2,855 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 27 | #2,694 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 26 | #2,717 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 30 | #2,411 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 24 | #2,758 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 35 | #2,089 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 31 | #2,203 | |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,640 | 28 | #2,201 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 39 | #1,711 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 30 | #1,965 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 28 | #2,025 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 26 | #2,049 | |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,258 | 20 | #2,421 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,462 | 22 | #2,281 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 31 | #1,818 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 23 | #2,229 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 27 | #1,953 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 20 | #2,295 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 19 | #2,380 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 11 | #3,306 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 19 | #2,296 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 17 | #2,376 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 15 | #2,526 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 13 | #2,683 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 30 | #1,605 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 11 | #2,920 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 16 | #2,150 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 12 | #2,469 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 11 | #2,496 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 16 | #1,977 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 21 | #1,729 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 22 | #1,704 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 27 | #1,516 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 19 | #1,860 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 20 | #1,831 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 31 | #1,435 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 20 | #1,813 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 23 | #1,650 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 30 | #1,437 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 25 | #1,573 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 26 | #1,511 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 42 | #1,154 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 48 | #1,045 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 29 | #1,409 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 23 | #1,557 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 31 | #1,294 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 39 | #1,129 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 26 | #1,432 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 27 | #1,427 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 35 | #1,179 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 21 | #1,452 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 31 | #1,195 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 28 | #1,316 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 21 | #1,542 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 24 | #1,380 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 32 | #1,190 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 24 | #1,365 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 24 | #1,373 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 21 | #1,492 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 25 | #1,330 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 26 | #1,332 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 25 | #1,365 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 31 | #1,182 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 29 | #1,263 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 21 | #1,552 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 19 | #1,706 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 18 | #1,805 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 26 | #1,457 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 29 | #1,382 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 43 | #1,067 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 21 | #1,693 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 28 | #1,422 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 37 | #1,179 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 43 | #1,076 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 43 | #1,070 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 41 | #1,109 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 34 | #1,210 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 34 | #1,197 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 30 | #1,241 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 25 | #1,382 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 47 | #907 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 47 | #772 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 31 | #878 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 12 | #1,435 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 10 | #1,131 | |
| 1910 | under 5 | 10 | #1,056 | |
| 1909 | under 5 | 10 | #963 | |
| 1908 | under 5 | 12 | #790 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 14 | #709 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 11 | #767 | |
| 1905 | under 5 | 6 | #1,124 | |
| 1904 | under 5 | 11 | #731 | |
| 1903 | under 5 | 6 | #1,035 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 7 | #948 | |
| 1901 | under 5 | 7 | #872 | |
| 1900 | under 5 | 16 | #630 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 7 | #874 | |
| 1898 | under 5 | 5 | #1,160 | |
| 1896 | under 5 | 5 | #1,128 | |
| 1895 | under 5 | 7 | #895 | |
| 1894 | under 5 | 7 | #878 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 9 | #654 | |
| 1889 | under 5 | 7 | #813 | |
| 1888 | under 5 | 6 | #945 | |
| 1886 | under 5 | 5 | #996 | |
| 1885 | under 5 | 5 | #966 | |
| 1883 | under 5 | 9 | #655 | |
| 1881 | under 5 | 8 | #662 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Collins a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 14,465 Americans recorded as Collins, 75% are girls and 25% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,286 girls and 48 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Collins: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Collins, and how old are they?
13,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 14,465 Americans ever recorded as Collins. The median Collins alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 6,872 people named Collins (3,980 women and girls, 2,892 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,260 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 88 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 352 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 249 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 445 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Collins born?
The states with the most babies named Collins are Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 144 | #239 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 65 | #155 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 65 | #113 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 61 | #163 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 60 | #309 | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 53 | #71 | 2.4× |
| South Carolina | 50 | #76 | 1.6× |
| Ohio | 48 | #234 | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 41 | #102 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 38 | #161 | 1.0× |
Where Collins is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Collins is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Collins with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 236,353 babies since 1880, Collins is the third most given (6.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,334 of their 3,438 babies (39%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Collins
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Collins and names like it
- Compare Collins and ColinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCollins peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Collins since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Collins: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Collins.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Collins alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.