Collin

Collin is the 11,647th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,577 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 116,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,577
Rank: 11,647th
How common: 1 in 116,000
Per 100,000: 0.86

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

. A spelling variant of Colin. From a medieval diminutive of Coll, a diminutive of Nicholas.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 73.8%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Hispanic or Latino 9.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Collin

Amanda Collin (born 1986)Danish actress
Jacques Collin de Plancy (1794–1881)French occultist, demonologist and writer
Raphaël Collin (1850–1916)French painter
Anton Collin (1891–1973)Finnish cross-country skier and cyclist

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

Surnames like Collin

Also a first name

Collin has been given to 81,962 American babies as a first name since 1895, peaking in 1996. 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.