Entry № 2127 · Irish origin

Collins Collins — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOL-inz /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Irish
Meaning
"Victory of the people (Lily Collins, Emily in Paris)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Irish)

A name that means "victory of the people (lily collins, emily in paris)".

Collins is from the Irish surname Mac Coileáin — Coileán ("young dog, warrior") + mac ("son of") — also Englishness from "son of Nicholas" (Nikoláos, "victory of the people"). A top-500 US baby name (girls) since 2015. Stephen Collins — male. Michael Collins (1890-1922) — male Irish revolutionary leader.

Victory of the people.

The name in its native script.

Collins
Transliteration
Collins
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɒl.ɪnz /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Collins stands.

Collins does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Collinss before her.

Real people
Lily Collins
English-American actress.
born 1989
Suzanne Collins
American Hunger Games author.
born 1962
Joan Collins
American Golden Globe actress.
born 1933
In fiction
Emily Cooper (Collins)
Emily in Paris.
2020

Names connected to Collins.

The number behind Collins.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Collins reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.