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Colin is an English-language masculine given name.It has two distinct origins: [2] A diminutive form of "Colle", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas ().This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin.
Collins is a given name, a transferred use of an English surname ultimately derived from multiple sources. It could be derived from Coll or Colin, an English diminutive of the Greek name Nicholas, or from the Irish word cuilein, meaning darling, from the Welsh collen, referring to a grove of hazel trees, or of the French Colline, meaning hill.
The name Colinc is also mentioned several times in the Domesday Book. The personal name Colin from which the surname derives has an even older history; Ceawlin, the king of the West Saxons, Caelin, a brother of St Chad, and the early Welsh saint, Kollen, all have names related to Colin. In Ireland, Collins is a genuinely indigenous Irish name ...
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Colin is a surname, variously derived including the given name Colin and the common name in French of some species of bird and fish. Alexander Colin or Colyn (1527/29–1612), Flemish sculptor; Alexandre-Marie Colin (1798–1875), French painter of historical and genre subjects; André Colin (1910–1978), French politician
Colm (/ ˈ k ɒ l ə m, ˈ k ʌ-/; Irish: [ˈkɔlˠəmˠ]) is a masculine given name of Irish origin. [1] It is not an Irish version of Colin, but like Callum and Malcolm derives from a Gaelic variation on columba, [1] the Latin word for "dove".
Colin may refer to: . Colin (given name) Colin (surname) Colin, a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie; Colin (horse) (1905–1932), Thoroughbred racehorse Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, Australia, in August 2008