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collins Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coileáin and Mac Coileáin (see Cullen 1).
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Col(l)in, a pet form of Coll, itself a short form of Nicholas.
Americanized form of French Colin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of collins Families in the US in 1920

Number of collins families

1964-3925

655-1963

1-654

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info needed on gus collins and georgia smith	mildred8573	0
COLLINS Johnnie Bell 1922-	t42MountOlivet	0
Collins of Taney County Missouri	sek2findthem	1
Jesse James Collins Obituary 1975	kaitysmom	0
COLLINS Walter Alton 1926-1984	t42MountOlivet	0
COLLINS Olivia C 1900-1961	t42MountOlivet	0
Valentine Collins born 1764 NC	soldat1992	11
COLLINS Walter T 1902-1985	t42MountOlivet	0
COLLINS Leonard G 1900-1971	t42MountOlivet	0
Edward Collins, Old Orchard, Maine	cgorley1	0

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