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Colsyn

Gender
Boy
Say it
KOHL-sin
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#5,044 for boys

Colsyn is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Cole (Nicholas)”. In 2025 it ranked 5,044th for boys in the US (19 babies).

What does Colsyn mean?

English: spelling of Kolsyn, itself a spelling of Colson, an English surname

“son of Cole (Nicholas)”

A spelling of Colson, an English surname from Col, a medieval pet form of Nicholas.

Meaning borrowed from Kolsyn.

Is Colsyn a girl's or a boy's name?

Colsyn is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 19 boys in the US.

How popular is Colsyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#5,044among boys
Babies in 2025
19about 1 in 90,000 boys
Five-year trend
Risingup 39% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 19 boys in the US were named Colsyn, making it the 5,044th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,695th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 27 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010. 6 girls were also named Colsyn in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).

Half of all the boys named Colsyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,474 boys in the US were given Colsyn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #164, up from #5,044 for this spelling alone.

2010Busiest: 27 in 20222025
Colsyn in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202519#5,044
202423#4,430
202315#5,922
202227#3,992
202118#5,105
202015#5,695
201916#5,551
201810#7,613
201710#7,542
20166#10,739
20158#8,739
20145#12,102
20130–
20129#8,152
20116#10,801
20105#12,224

Nicknames for Colsyn

Names like Colsyn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Colsyn

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Colsyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/colsyn, updated 20 October 2026.