Kollins
Feminine · “young hound”
Kollins is given to both — 1,091 girls and 42 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kollins respells Collins, and the Irish surname behind it is Ó Coileáin — descendant of the young hound, from the word that gives us the whelp of a wolf or dog.
How old is the name Kollins?
Kollins first appears in US birth records in 2010 — 15 years ago. The typical Kollins is a kid of about 3 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Kollins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kollins most popular?
Kollins peaked in 2024, reaching #1374 nationally. Today it ranks #1561, 187 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
Where it comes from
From coileán to Kollins
The story of Kollins
Ó Coileáin was a Limerick and Cork family, anglicized as Collins and Cullane; Michael Collins made the surname internationally known. Its use as a girls' given name is recent and American, part of the 2010s movement of surname-names for daughters, and the K respelling followed. Kollins appears in the registers from around 2015.
Meaningscholars disagree
young hound, whelp
From the Irish Ó Coileáin, from coileán, 'whelp' or 'young hound' — a young animal of the dog kind. A separate English Collins descends from Colin, a medieval diminutive of Nicholas. Both feed the surname and neither is settled for a given bearer.
How the name formed
- coileán
- Ó Coileáin
- Collins
- Kollins
Related forms: Collins · Ó Coileáin · Kollyns
Pronouncing Kollins
KOL-inz
Two syllables, stress on the first. Kollins and Collins are said identically.
Nicknames for Kollins
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2010
- Most girls named
- 2024165 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1374reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −18.2%135 in 2025, from 165
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kollins in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Collins in English — spelling variant
- Ó Coileáin in Irish — related form
- Kollyns in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Louisiana, Missouri.
Kollinss among us
people named Kollins are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 11,906 born in 2025 was named Kollins
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kollins
- #1561
- Kollins on the 2025 chart
- #181
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kollins went to 135 girls in 2025, but Collins, Kollyns and Collyns are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,814, which makes it the 181st most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,380 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 886 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 11,906 for Kollins itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rayven test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kollins's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rayven climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rayven's path sketches the road Kollins is walking now.
Kollins is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kollins is headed
Kollins looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 42% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kollins beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kollins in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The young-hound meaning is concrete and belongs to a documented Munster family.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The Nicholas route gives it a second and quite separate tradition.
- Collins is the standard spelling and reads as a surname.
- The origin is genuinely split between Irish and English routes.
- It is very new as a feminine given name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kollinss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Kollins are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kollins?
- Kollins is one of 4 recorded spellings. Collins is the more common one — 1,286 births in 2025 against 135 for Kollins.
- How popular is the name Kollins in 2025?
- Kollins ranks #1561 among US girl names in 2025, with 135 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kollins?
- About 1 in every 11,906 US girls born in 2025 was named Kollins — 135 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kollins with classmates?
- Kollins will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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