Meaning not yet researched.
Kolin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,575 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,575 in 1997; #5,318 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kolin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,318 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,575.
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Kolin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,575 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 79 (2004).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Kolin, making it the 5,318th most common boys’ name of the year, up 475 places from #5,793 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 16 boys named Kolin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,575, reached in 1997. The most boys given the name in a single year was 79, in 2004. For comparison, it was #2,288 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolin in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 5 babies. In all, 1,945 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 651 babies named Kolin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 253 US boys were named Kolin; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Colin (134,151 babies since 1880), Collin (81,962 babies since 1880) and Kollin (2,782 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kolene are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kolene (46).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kolin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 18 | #5,318 |
| 2024 | — | — | 16 | #5,793 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,540 |
| 2022 | — | — | 15 | #6,023 |
| 2021 | — | — | 25 | #4,177 |
| 2020 | — | — | 28 | #3,771 |
| 2019 | — | — | 27 | #3,959 |
| 2018 | — | — | 37 | #3,140 |
| 2017 | — | — | 36 | #3,222 |
| 2016 | — | — | 40 | #2,959 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,288 |
| 2014 | — | — | 64 | #2,145 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,384 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,035 |
| 2011 | — | — | 53 | #2,390 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,227 |
| 2009 | — | — | 71 | #1,983 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,309 |
| 2007 | — | — | 57 | #2,292 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,237 |
| 2005 | — | — | 66 | #1,932 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,641 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,601 |
| 2002 | — | — | 56 | #1,990 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,790 |
| 2000 | — | — | 66 | #1,720 |
| 1999 | — | — | 56 | #1,793 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,754 |
| 1997 | — | — | 65 | #1,575 |
| 1996 | — | — | 61 | #1,606 |
| 1995 | — | — | 34 | #2,326 |
| 1994 | — | — | 50 | #1,762 |
| 1993 | — | — | 47 | #1,813 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,441 |
| 1991 | — | — | 34 | #2,174 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,289 |
| 1989 | — | — | 24 | #2,657 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,032 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,431 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,357 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,022 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,039 |
| 1983 | — | — | 13 | #3,334 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,235 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,742 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,128 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,462 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,407 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,699 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,934 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,416 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,311 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,226 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,181 |
| 1970 | — | — | 9 | #3,413 |
| 1969 | — | — | 8 | #3,459 |
| 1966 | — | — | 8 | #3,128 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,844 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,361 |
| 1962 | — | — | 7 | #3,485 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,148 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).