Collins — #257 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Collins

The Social Security Administration has registered 9,490 babies named Collins between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Collins currently holds the #257 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 1,271 babies received it in a single year. Collins is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,638 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Collins performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 5,589 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Collins shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Collins in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Collins 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 9,490 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.