Collin Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Collin is best understood together with Collins: both are Irish spellings of a single family name. Read literally, Collin points to “Descendant of Coileán, "young hound”.

• Without the “s” of Collins, Collin is a simpler written form of the same name.
• You may also find the name written Cullane and Ó Coileáin.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.

Heraldry and the Collin name

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