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Colina

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Colina has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1922. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Colina, 1988

1 in 616,000

Colina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Colina: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Colina means

Colina is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Colina is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 girls were recorded with the name Colina between 1922 and 1988. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1982; its best national rank was #5,162 in 1922.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Colina?

Colina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1988, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1988
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,694,212 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1988
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,773 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Colina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1988 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 426,773 children born in 1988 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Colina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Colinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Colina was born before 1982 — so the typical Colina is around 43 today.

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
77.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
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1980s — 77.3% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Colina rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (6)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,162
1922

Spellings of Colina

Colina is not the most common spelling — Celia is, with 13.7% against Colina's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Colina around the world

Where Colina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1985–1991
    #669
    in 1991

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Colina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,162
1922
Peak year
1982
6 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
1988
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Colina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Colina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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