Collins

317,373 people in the United States were counted with the surname Collins in the 2020 census, making it the 60th most common in the country. That is about one person in 942.

By the numbers

People: 317,373
Rank: 60th
How common: 1 in 942
Per 100,000: 106.2

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

As an English surname, variant of Colin.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 68.8%
Black, not Hispanic 22.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Collins

Phil Collins (born 1951)English drummer, singer, and songwriter
Michael Collins (1930–2021)American astronaut
Lily Collins (born 1989)British-American actress
Michael Collins (1890–1922)Irish revolutionary and politician
Suzanne Collins (born 1962)American television writer and novelist
Wilkie Collins (1824–1889)British writer
Joan Collins (born 1933)English actress, author and columnist
Susan Collins (born 1952)United States Senator from Maine since 1997

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

Surnames like Collins

Also a first name

Collins has been given to 14,465 American babies as a first name since 1881, peaking in 2025. 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.