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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
Abel Collin (1653–1705), benefactor in Nottingham, England; Adam Collin (born 1984), English footballer; Albéric Collin (1886–1962), Belgian sculptor; Anton Collin (1891–1973), Finnish cross country skier
The unabridged Collins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian. [5] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the Google ...
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 glass, in which the Tom Collins cocktail is traditionally served; Collins Place, a hotel and office complex in Melbourne, Australia; Collins-class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarine operated by the Royal Australian Navy; Tom Collins, a gin cocktail; R v Collins, a Supreme Court of Canada case on exclusion of evidence
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'.
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A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name.