Collie
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Collie has been given to 1,531 babies in the U.S. since 1881. 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 1915, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% boys, 23% girls all-time.
Babies named Collie, 2001
1 in 535,000
Collie over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Collie over time
In 2025, Collie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Collie?
Collie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 535,000
- 7 of 3,742,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 277,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 370,556 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Collie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 370,556 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Collie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Collies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Collie was born before 1931 — so the typical Collie is around 94 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 18.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.5%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 315
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (216).
Is Collie 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (35)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.9% average annual change
Spellings of Collie
Collie is not the most common spelling — Willie is, with 48.2% against Collie's 0.13%.
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.
Where Collie is used
Across 1910–2025, Collie was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 190,681 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 50,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4South Carolina1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Collie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Collie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Collie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Collie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.