The COLLINS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	317,848	52	0.118	1,178
United States (1880 census)	76,741	41	0.153	1,535
Change since 1880	+241107	-11	-0.035	-357
Other Countries
Australia	18,890	45	0.116	1,156
United Kingdom	64,910	63	0.141	1,413

Top States for COLLINS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	22,011	86	0.106	1,056
California	21,367	109	0.063	631
Florida	19,459	57	0.122	1,218
Ohio	15,750	37	0.139	1,387
Georgia	13,942	41	0.170	1,703
Top States for COLLINS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	9,530	28	0.236	2,358
Delaware	1,847	26	0.236	2,357
Tennessee	12,250	39	0.215	2,153
South Carolina	8,497	44	0.212	2,118
Mississippi	5,729	45	0.201	2,014

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of COLLINS

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From name of parent

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the COLLINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the COLLINS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of COLLINS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	234,953	73.92
Black/African American	68,973	21.7
Mixed Race	5,244	1.65
White (Hispanic)	5,117	1.61
Native American/Alaskan	2,384	0.75
Asian/Pacific	1,176	0.37

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

Meaning of COLLINS in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) From Cuilein, darling, a term of endearment applied to young animals, as Catulus, in Latin. In the Welsh, Collen signifies hazel--a hazel-grove.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

COLLIN. COLLINS. COLLIS. Colin is one of the diminutives of Nicholas, and Collins may be its genitive, and CoUis a corruption thereof. There are, however, other assigned etymons, as Fr. colli rn;, a hill, and Gael, cuilcin, a term of endearment. But Collinc is also an ancient baptismal name, which existed before the comiilation of Domesday. According to B.L.G. the Collinses of Walford existed, CO iwrnine, in the time of the Conqueror, in cos. Hereford and Salop.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to COLLINS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as COLLINS.

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.