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I like Collin with a short O, like in "hop." Colin makes the O longer, which makes it sound like colon, which I do not like. Collin is not a name I'd use, but I do like it. It's a nice Irish name.

This message was edited 6/3/2025, 2:42 AM

I've never liked it much, but it's certainly a good and respectable name.

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Collin looks excessive. One "L" is a more elegant spelling.

I think it's a fine name: recognisable, a little charming and not overused, but the spelling Collin looks overdone and surnamey.

A boring white boomer name. Dry and stale. Collin is preferable but still bad.

Collin feels more complete. Colin reminds me of colon.

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It's a little cold and haughty, but not terrible.

It's okay. I think of Phil Collins and Colin Robinson from "What We Do In the Shadows", neither of which is a negative association. The only negative is the possible association with the word colon, but that depends on your pronunication, for example, Colin Powell.

This message was edited 5/31/2025, 2:02 PM

I have a good friend named Colin, and another of our friends always spells his name "Collin" no matter how many times she's corrected, and it drives him nuts, LOL. I don't mind Collin honestly.

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Colin is ok. I grew up with many Colins. It's a good name in that it fits a little kid and a grown up equally well. I wonder if its on the way out, though, because most Colins are growing up. The ones I know are in their 40s now. I suppose soon it will be seen as a "dad/grandpa" name.

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Somehow I always forget that it is related to Nicholas, because it has such a different character to Nicholas.

Definitely not Collin. Colin is very pleasant; never been excessively popular, but has nothing working against it that I know of - serial killer, annoying TV continuity person, etc. No obvious nicknames, but that's fine, it's short enough not to need one.