Kollin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a settlement name; likely related to place-name Kollin
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/koʎin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Kollin is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 145K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
2,294 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Koellin in NL Netherlands.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from a settlement name; likely related to place-name Kollin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kollin 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 | 2,294 | 1 in 145K | 2.3K | Kollin | 195 |
| IN India | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Kollin | 4 |
| PH Philippines | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kollin | 17 |
| CA Canada | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Kollin | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Kollin | 12 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Kollin | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 6 | 1 in 2.9M | 30 | Koellin | 3 |
2,294 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kollin is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, habitational name from Collin in Brandenburg or Pomerania, Kolline in Silesia, or Kolin in Bohemia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of kolli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, habitational surname from Kolín
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, indefinite plural of kolli
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Bedřich Kollinb. 1877CZholocaust victim, b. 1877-05-28
- Pavel Kollinb. 1890CZholocaust victim, b. 1890-06-22
- Hanuš Kollinb. 1911CZHolocaust victim (born 1911)
- Karel Kollinb. 1917CZHolocaust victim (born 1917)
- Viktoria Kollinb. 1987SESwedish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 264 | #78,145 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 249 | #77,012 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kollin mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a settlement name; likely related to place-name Kollin. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Kollin?
- In Spanish /koʎin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Kollin a male or female name?
- Kollin is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Kollin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Kollin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kollin.
- Where is Kollin most common?
- Kollin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 145 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kollin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,294 people named Kollin in 2020, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kollinThe 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, “Kollin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.