Collin Family History
Collin Name Meaning
English and French: from a pet form of English Coll 1,
French Colle.Probably an altered spelling of German
Kollin.Danish: variant of Colding.Swedish: ornamental name from an unexplained first element,
probably from a place name, + the the suffix -in, from Latin
-in(i)us ‘descendant of’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Collin
Name Distribution of Collin Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Collin families
 175 - 348  59 - 174 |
 1 - 58  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Collin families
|
85 - 168 29 - 84 |
1 - 28 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Collin census records
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Collin Family Origin
Collin Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Collin Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Collin census records
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Military Service by Collin
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