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Kollyn

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
KAH-lin
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#6,324 for girls

Kollyn is a name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).

Where does Kollyn come from?

Scottish: spelling of Collyn, itself a variant spelling of Colin, used for girls

Meaning borrowed from Collyn.

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

In recent years, Kollyn has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US.

How popular is Kollyn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,324among girls
Babies in 2025
18about 1 in 89,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Kollyn, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. It first appears in the records in 2010.

2025 had the most girls named Kollyn of any year since it first appeared, in 2010.

Half of all the girls named Kollyn in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2010Busiest: 18 in 20252025
Kollyn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202518#6,324
20245#15,288
202315#7,242
202215#7,276
202114#7,625
202010#9,541
20195#15,532
20187#12,459
20170–
20160–
20156#14,477
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20106#14,953

Names like Kollyn

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

Names related to Kollyn

More Scottish names

Every Scottish 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, “Kollyn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kollyn, updated 20 October 2026.