Colin (given name)
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Colin (given name)
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Colin is an English-language masculine given name. It has two distinct origins:
- A diminutive form of "Colle", itself an Old French short form of the name Nicolas (Nicholas). This name, but not the anglicized Gaelic name, is also found in the spelling Collin. This name is formed by the Old French diminutive -in also found in Robin.
- An anglicisation of the Irish given name Coileán or the Scottish Gaelic name Cailean, which both come from the Old Irish word cuilén "pup, cub". The Scottish G
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_(given_name)
date created:
2007-10-09T23:13:01Z
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2024-09-13T08:10:24Z
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