This page shows the Colin (boys) figures from the National Records of Scotland babies' first names table, which covers every year from 1974 to 2025. Each row below is one year in which Colin was recorded as a first name for boys in Scotland: the number of babies given the name that year and the name's rank among Colin's first-name rivals that year — that is, the rank the source table itself gives the row, among all first names for boys that year.

The record for Colin for boys sums every one of those rows. Across the years covered, Colin appears in 51 of them, from 1974 to 2025, with 8,758 babies in total. Its largest single year was 1974, when the table records 634 babies given the name, at rank 17 among all first names for boys that year.

Figures cover every year from 1974 to 2025; years in which the table records no row for Colin for boys are simply not listed. The publisher suppresses names with a total count of 2 or less in Scotland, so no figure here stands below 3.

Year by year

Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names table, 1974 to 2025. Fetched 2026-11-05.

YearBabies given the nameRank among boys' first names
20256495
20233728
20228392
20217437
20204599
201910334
20186472
201710352
201611331
201515273
201413302
201314280
201216261
201117241
201022209
200917245
200820214
200722198
200623185
200519194
200437130
200321179
200220172
200131134
200031134
199942117
199851108
19976992
19968778
19958782
199410672
199310672
199214657
199117152
199021241
198923138
198829032
198733429
198631429
198537526
198439623
198346720
198244021
198151920
198054220
197958317
197847519
197749518
197656518
197561818
197463417

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