Collis
Collis was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 1,319 Americans have been recorded with it between 1894 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Collis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Collis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,705, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1952, the peak
Collis peaked in 1952, when 30 boys were given it, #1,380 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #12,705 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,526 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,429 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 5 | #12,839 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,701 | 2.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,429 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,114 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,338 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,767 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,876 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 8 | #6,716 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 12 | #4,840 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,466 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,305 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,782 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,635 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,716 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,561 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,913 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,921 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,072 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,608 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,291 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,588 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,659 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 19 | #2,482 | 11.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,436 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 9 | #3,899 | 5.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,514 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,011 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,690 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,761 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 15 | #2,448 | 9.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,033 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,414 | 8.1 |
| 1969 | 14 | #2,329 | 7.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,428 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,633 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,495 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,286 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 14 | #2,228 | 7.0 |
| 1963 | 10 | #2,705 | 4.9 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,401 | 5.8 |
| 1961 | 17 | #2,006 | 8.0 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,714 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,319 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,864 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,964 | 7.9 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,955 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 17 | #1,912 | 8.3 |
| 1954 | 20 | #1,714 | 9.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,910 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 30 | #1,380 | 15.4 |
| 1951 | 15 | #1,991 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 15 | #1,953 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,767 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,382 | 16.0 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,609 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 20 | #1,607 | 12.3 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,709 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,446 | 16.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,781 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,965 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 13 | #2,011 | 10.6 |
| 1940 | 14 | #1,916 | 12.1 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,081 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,699 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,456 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 14 | #1,891 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 17 | #1,720 | 16.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,734 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 20 | #1,549 | 20.2 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,730 | 17.2 |
| 1931 | 19 | #1,648 | 18.3 |
| 1930 | 22 | #1,566 | 20.0 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,339 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,417 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,883 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,574 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 17 | #1,946 | 15.2 |
| 1924 | 27 | #1,464 | 23.8 |
| 1923 | 23 | #1,604 | 21.0 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,836 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 19 | #1,841 | 17.3 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,154 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 20 | #1,707 | 20.4 |
| 1918 | 14 | #2,181 | 13.8 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,201 | 14.0 |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,652 | 21.3 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,221 | 34.2 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,800 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,829 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,436 | 27.9 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,575 | 26.6 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,307 | 36.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,382 | 34.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,271 | 37.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,176 | 40.8 |
| 1900 | 10 | #852 | 66.5 |
| 1899 | 7 | #875 | 65.9 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,114 | 43.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Collis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Collis has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 101 years of records.
Girls and boys named Collis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Collis, and how old are they?
An estimated 589 Americans named Collis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 43 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 671 people named Collis (50 women and girls, 621 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 674 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,315 babies since 1880, Collis is the most given (57% of them).
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 Collis
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 Collis and names like it
- Compare Collis and CloisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sCollis peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Collis since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Collis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Collis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.