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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Colin

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#343

down −8 places

2025 births

950

down −88 births

All-time births

133,706

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2004
5,122 births
Best rank
#85
in 2004
First recorded
1880
#833 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1997
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
135 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 20045,122#85Peak
  2. 20034,876#88
  3. 20054,532#95
  4. 20063,861#111
  5. 20083,732#114

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #85 in 2004 · peak births 5,122 in 2004

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

133,706 boys · 445 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Colin has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.