Colin

At the 2020 census, 7,617 Americans bore the surname Colin — 4,529th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 39,200.

By the numbers

People: 7,617
Rank: 4,529th
How common: 1 in 39,200
Per 100,000: 2.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Colin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 70.8%
White, not Hispanic 17.2%
Black, not Hispanic 10.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Colin

Margaret Colin (born 1958)American actress
Maxime Colin (born 1991)French footballer
Jurgen Colin (born 1981)Dutch footballer
Grégoire Colin (born 1975)French actor
Héloïse Colin (1819–1873)French draughtsperson, illustrator and painter
Jean-Claude Colin (1790–1875)French Catholic priest (1790–1875), founder of the Society of Mary

People named Colin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Colin

Also a first name

Colin has been given to 134,151 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2004. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.