Fun Facts About the Name Kollins
- More than 1 thousand babies named Kollins: U.S. records list 1,131 babies given the name Kollins from 1880 through 2025. Even 42 boys received the name Kollins - about 1 boy for every 26 girls.
What Does the Name Kollins Mean?
Kollins is a respelled variant of the English and Irish surname Collins, which is most commonly a patronymic meaning "son of Colin." Colin was a medieval English and French pet form of Nicholas, from Greek Nikolaos, built from nikē ("victory") and laos ("people"). In this line of descent the literal sense of the surname is "son of Colin," while the sense often attached to the name overall is "victory of the people," carried over from Nicholas.
Collins also has independent Gaelic origins in Ireland, where it stands as an anglicized form of Ó Coileáin, "descendant of Coileán," and of Mac Coileáin, "son of Coileán." Coileán is a byname from coileán, meaning "pup" or "young dog." Because the English and Irish surnames came to be spelled alike, the two strands cannot always be separated in any single family's case.
Kollins Name History & Origins
Collins arose in England as a hereditary surname formed from the given name Colin, a familiar form of Nicholas. Nicholas was widely used in medieval Europe, and pet forms such as Col and Colin were common enough in England and northern France that surnames meaning "son of Colin" or "son of Col" appear in records by the later Middle Ages.
In Ireland, a separate Gaelic surname from Ó Coileáin was anglicized as Collins, chiefly in Munster, especially in County Cork and County Limerick. This Irish surname is unrelated in origin to the English patronymic, even though the two are now written identically. The name also appears in Scotland and among English settlers in Ireland, which added further strands to the same spelling.
Kollins itself is a spelling variation rather than a distinct name with its own etymology. It substitutes K for C, following a general pattern of respelling names and surnames with K in English-speaking countries, and it is used mainly in the United States, both as a surname spelling and as a given name. Its meaning and origin remain those of Collins; the altered spelling does not indicate a different source language or root.
How Popular is the Name Kollins?
Kollins has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #1,371 in 2024.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,568 | 135 | 0.0084% |
| 2024 | #1,371 | 165 | 0.0102% |
| 2023 | #1,483 | 147 | 0.0092% |
| 2022 | #1,616 | 131 | 0.0080% |
| 2021 | #1,904 | 104 | 0.0063% |
| 2020 | #2,248 | 80 | 0.0050% |
| 2019 | #2,640 | 66 | 0.0039% |
| 2018 | #2,724 | 63 | 0.0037% |
| 2017 | #4,266 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2016 | #4,127 | 36 | 0.0020% |
| 2015 | #4,794 | 29 | 0.0016% |
| 2014 | #5,898 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2013 | #4,296 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 2012 | #6,229 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2011 | #9,459 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2010 | #10,853 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,244 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #13,459 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2020 | #13,197 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #9,368 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2016 | #13,343 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #11,517 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #11,542 | 6 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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