Collins
Collins reached its high-water mark in 2025 at number 241, and has been recorded 14,465 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 241st. About 13,000 Collinses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 5.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Collins
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Collins crossed from boys to girls in 2010, and has stayed there for 16 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 96% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 81 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,465
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 5
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 241st
- Rank in 2025
- 241st
- First recorded
- 1881
- Girls / boys
- 10,779 / 3,686
How old the living Collinses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,465 babies given the name since 1881, about 13,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 12,000 of them are children and 390 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2020 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Collinss
- Collins John (born 1985)Dutch footballer
- William Collins Whitney (1841–1904)American politician, financier; United States Secretary of the Navy
People named Collins with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Collins is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Collins is most concentrated in Alabama (3.0×), Nebraska (2.8×), Utah (2.5×), South Carolina (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Collins peaked:
Collins elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Collins | 80 | 6,603rd |
| England and Wales boys | Collins | 79 | 2,318th |
| Ireland boys | Collins | 9 | 409th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Collins among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Collins | 15 | 22 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Collins against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.