Given name & surname
Collis
“a coal miner”
Collis is a variant of Collier. One English interpretation is “a coal miner.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Collis is a variant of Collier. One English interpretation is “a coal miner.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Collis is a variant of Collier. An origin associated with Collier is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1894. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Collis through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,319
- 1,309 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 1952
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 1952. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 671 as a first name in 2020; 2,956 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Collis’s family of names
Collis has a related form in Collier. In English usage, Collis as a surname has a related form in Collins.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Collis
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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