Kolin
Kolin was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,316 among boys’ names; 1,945 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,890 Americans named Kolin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolin?
#5,316 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolin fell from #2,287 in 2015 to #5,316 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 10.5 per million.
79 babies in 2003, the peak
Kolin peaked in 2003, when 79 boys were given it, #1,598 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,316 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,788 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,535 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,018 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,173 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 28 | #3,768 | 16.2 |
| 2019 | 27 | #3,956 | 15.0 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,137 | 20.4 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,221 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,958 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,287 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 64 | #2,144 | 33.3 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,383 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,033 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 53 | #2,389 | 27.9 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,226 | 30.8 |
| 2009 | 71 | #1,982 | 35.8 |
| 2008 | 57 | #2,308 | 27.9 |
| 2007 | 57 | #2,292 | 27.5 |
| 2006 | 57 | #2,236 | 27.7 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,928 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,638 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,598 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 56 | #1,986 | 28.8 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,786 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 66 | #1,716 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 56 | #1,790 | 29.2 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,751 | 30.3 |
| 1997 | 65 | #1,572 | 34.5 |
| 1996 | 61 | #1,603 | 32.2 |
| 1995 | 34 | #2,321 | 17.9 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,757 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,808 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,436 | 15.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,168 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 31 | #2,284 | 15.1 |
| 1989 | 24 | #2,651 | 12.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,027 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,427 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,354 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 16 | #3,019 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,037 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,333 | 7.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,233 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,741 | 6.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,126 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,459 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,405 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,697 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,932 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,414 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,309 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,224 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,179 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,411 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 8 | #3,458 | 4.5 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,127 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,843 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,360 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,484 | 3.4 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,147 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolin, and how old are they?
1,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,945 Americans ever recorded as Kolin. The median Kolin alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 1,716 people named Kolin (22 women and girls, 1,694 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 18 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 87 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 399 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 963 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 425 |
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).
How common is the spelling Kolin?
Kolin is a less common spelling of Colin: SSA has recorded 1,945 Kolin and 134,151 Colin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 223,690 babies since 1880, Kolin is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,643 babies (1.1%), again the fourth most given.
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 Kolin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1950-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Brennan | 35,487 | |
| Chancellor | 2,648 | |
| Eryk | 1,053 | |
| Miguelangel | 4,013 | |
| Danthony | 1,626 | |
| Jalil | 2,915 |
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 Kolin and names like it
- Compare Kolin and ColinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKolin peaked in 2003.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolin since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Kolin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kolin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.