Colin
Colin is ranked 334th among boys in 2024 (1,035 births). Its best rank was 85th, in 2004.
- Rank in 2024
- #334same as 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,0350.06% of boys
- Peak year
- 20045,122 births
- Best rank
- #85in 2004
- Since 1880
- 132,757people given the name
The story in the numbers
132,757 boys have been named Colin in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 5,122 births — 0.26% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 142 → 334).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2000, and the 2000s alone account for 29%. It has spent 107 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Colin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 46 | |
| 1890s | 30 | |
| 1900s | 34 | |
| 1910s | 267 | |
| 1920s | 412 | |
| 1930s | 491 | |
| 1940s | 1,919 | |
| 1950s | 2,459 | |
| 1960s | 4,166 | |
| 1970s | 7,488 | |
| 1980s | 17,673 | |
| 1990s | 28,256 | |
| 2000s | 39,128 | |
| 2010s | 24,715 | |
| 2020s | 5,673 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Colin was the 85th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Colin
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joseluispeak 2000
- Cesarpeak 2004
- Alexandropeak 2004
- Gianfrancopeak 2002
- Christanpeak 2004
- Blaynepeak 2009
- Juancarlospeak 2004
- Alejandropeak 2001
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.