Collín
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Collín is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Colin, from the given name Nicolas.
- USUnited States1 in 4.6K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7K
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 485 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
72,614 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Collin in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Variant of Colin, from the given name Nicolas.
Cited for this meaning 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Collín counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 72,614 | 1 in 4.6K | 72K | Collin | 485 |
| ZA South Africa | #882 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Collin | 56 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Collin | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Collin | 150 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 2 | Collin | 185 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 2.2K | Collin | 82 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Collin | 62 |
| GY Guyana | #128 | 360 | 1 in 2.1K | 360 | Collin | 5 |
72,614 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Collín mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Colin, from the given name Nicolas. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Collín a male or female name?
- Collín is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Collín have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 73 thousand people named Collín, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled collin.
- Where is Collín most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Collín is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Collín?
- In the United States, the national register counted 72,614 people named Collín in 2020, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Collín compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Collín is the 128th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/coll%C3%ADnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Collín” — the 128th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.