Collin
Celtic at root, with a meaning that stays close to the ground: "young pup" or "cub". In Poland it stays rare, carried by fewer than a hundred men, so most people here have never met one.
Collin Pronunciation
Collin is pronounced TSOL-leen (/ˈt͡sɔllin/).
What Collin means
Where Collin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Collin traces back to Celtic ground, and to the Scottish Gaelic word `cailean`, which names a whelp, a young pup. The sense sits close to the animal, a cub, small and not yet grown. English speakers took the form up and made it their own, first as Colin, then Collin with the doubled letter.
The meaning stays plain. Young pup, or cub. It reaches for nothing grander, and it never pretended to.
On a Polish class register, Collin now turns up beside older home-grown names, a borrowing carried in by English film and football. The teacher reads it once and remembers it. No imieniny is fixed to it in the Polish calendar, so the day belongs to whoever wears the name. Collin means young pup, `cailean` in the old Gaelic.
How many people are named Collin
1 in 222356 men in Poland is named Collin. 96 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3535 among male names.
Collin's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Where Collin is most popular
Collin is most popular in Greater Poland, 904% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025).
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Greater Poland2 boys born+904%
Collin as a middle name
Collin is a first name for 96 men in Poland and a middle name for another 12, an 89/11 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2756th, between Clayton (12) and Cong (12).
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#2754 Cieszymir12
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#2755 Clayton12
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#2756 Collin12
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#2757 Cong12
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#2758 Deep12