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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; in fact, it is one of the most numerous surnames, ranked number 30. [2
As of 2014, 47.6% of all known bearers of the surname Collin were residents of France (frequency 1:2,853), ... Colin (surname) Collins (surname) References
Collings is an Olde English surname with two possible origins. [1] One is from the Norse name which in Olde English became 'Cola', meaning swarthy or dark. The second possibility is that it comes from 'Coll', a diminutive of Nicholas, meaning 'victory of the people'.
Collins Chabane (1960–2015), South African Minister of Public Service and Administration; Collins Cheboi (born 1987), Kenyan middle-distance runner; Collins Denny (1854–1943), American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Collins Denny Jr. (1899–1964), American pro-segregationist lawyer. Collins Hagler (born 1935), Canadian ...
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.
Collins. Ó Coileáin (Middle Irish: Ua Cuiléin) is a Modern Irish surname generally belonging to the descendants of the last leading family of the Uí Chonaill Gabra, a sept and small but notable overkingdom of medieval and ancient Ireland, based in western County Limerick.
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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
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