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The COLIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,583 5697 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 253 16224 0.001 5
Change since 1880 +5330 +10527 +0.001 +16
Other Countries
Australia 48 26430 0 3
United Kingdom 303 12665 0.001 7
Top States for COLIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 1,501 2699 0.004 44
Texas 516 5176 0.002 25
Illinois 501 3323 0.004 40
New York 448 5609 0.002 24
Florida 396 6396 0.002 25
Top States for COLIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nevada 97 3139 0.005 49
California 1,501 2699 0.004 44
Illinois 501 3323 0.004 40
Idaho 40 5832 0.003 31
Arizona 146 5207 0.003 28

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called COLIN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called COLIN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called COLIN in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a COLIN by picking someone at random in Nevada than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of COLIN

Region of origin: Europe

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Ethnic distribution of COLIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 466 8.35
Mixed Race 86 1.54
Asian/Pacific 24 0.43
Native American/Alaskan 13 0.23
White (Hispanic) 3,528 63.19
White (Caucasian) 1,466 26.26

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the COLIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of COLIN in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of COLIN.

Similar names to COLIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLIN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for COLIN

The following words are slight variants of COLIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.