# Baby name debate: Colin or Collin? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558 "2008-02-14T04:07:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/41 "2008-02-14T21:03:47Z")
Colin. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/42 "2008-02-14T21:21:36Z")
It’s spelled “Colin.” Why saddle your kid with Correction Hell? [QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”] Now that’s decided, how about Caitlyn or Caitlin? [/QUOTE] Neither. Too trendy. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/43 "2008-02-14T21:38:19Z")
Colin. Might as well spell it correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/44 "2008-02-14T21:45:03Z")
[QUOTE=Hostile Dialect] BTW, an easy way to settle your next such dispute is a quick Google search: colin: almost 80 million hits collin: 13 million hits Not even close. [/QUOTE] So, **Slacker** , do you think she’s likely to accept the results of the Google Fight? ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/45 "2008-02-14T22:48:32Z")
This isn’t like Katherine and Catherine, where there are two common ways to spell the name. If you name your kid Collin, for the rest of his life, people are just going to assume that his parents are lousy spellers. One L, please. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/46 "2008-02-14T22:50:30Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog] Kolin. That’ll fuck 'em. [/QUOTE] Kolyn. Double fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/47 "2008-02-14T22:52:52Z")
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”] Now that’s decided, how about Caitlyn or Caitlin? [/QUOTE] Cathleen. That’s how that damned name is properly pronounced anyway. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/48 "2008-02-14T23:28:28Z")
[QUOTE=1920s Style “Death Ray”] Col’n. [/QUOTE] Carp’n’t’r ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/49 "2008-02-14T23:31:07Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] This kind of thing happens to me all the time, which I don’t mind, because I have to (grudgingly) admit that there are two equally legitimate spellings of my name, and I know people write e-mails fast and all that. But, I draw the line at an acquaintance of mine who addressed an e-mail to me spelled the wrong way…despite the fact that it is _her name also, and she spells it the same way I do_! I would spell it with one L, just to try to avoid his having to say “Colin with two L’s” for the rest of his life, the way I have to say “Sarah with an H” _every single time_. [/QUOTE] Doesn’t help. “Is that Greg with one G or two?” “Two, if it only had one, would it go on the beginning or the end?” ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/50 "2008-02-14T23:39:49Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Carp’n’t’r [/QUOTE] That’s just whoosed several continents’ worth of Dopers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/51 "2008-02-14T23:40:20Z")
One L. Two Ls looks weird. Concerning “Rachel,” people are _always_ sticking that extra A in somewhere. And even then, they _do it wrong!_. “Rachael” is a acceptable spelling, even if it’s not the one I use. “Racheal” and “Raechel” are not. “Rachel. With one A,” I tell people a lot of the time. Weird. Seeing my name that many times makes it look really strange suddenly. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/52 "2008-02-15T00:03:09Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > Weird. Seeing my name that many times makes it look really strange suddenly. _You_ think it’s weird?? 😃 And not only am I named Colin, but my cat is named Rachel. She was named by someone else and it never occurred to me that I should spell it any differently when I took her to the vet for the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/53 "2008-02-15T00:11:04Z")
I am about to have a son and Colin with one L was one of my suggested names. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/54 "2008-02-15T06:01:56Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Kolyn. Double fucked. [/QUOTE] Kollyn. Triple fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/55 "2008-02-15T06:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=Slacker] My wife and I are expecting a young’n soon, and we’re having trouble with the name. We’ve pretty much decided on Colin, but she think it should be Collin… [/QUOTE] Boy or girl? I kid, I kid… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/56 "2008-02-15T14:25:52Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Kollyn. Triple fucked. [/QUOTE] Kollyne. Gang banged. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/57 "2008-02-15T14:38:39Z")
[Colin Powell](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell) [Colin Mochrie](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Mochrie) Debate closed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/58 "2008-02-15T15:05:35Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] Kollyn. Triple fucked. [/QUOTE] Qallyn. QUADfucked. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/59 "2008-02-15T15:32:50Z")
Gotta name the kid Collin. Great name, brings to mind the [Collin Street Bakery](http://www.collinstreet.com), home of the “World-Famous DeLuxe Fruitcake”. Once the kids at school find out about that, it’s lights out… ---
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558/60 "2008-02-15T16:15:32Z")
[QUOTE=Aspidistra] One L. However, **Hostile Dialect** notwithstanding, I’m afraid you’re doomed to Correction Hell whatever you do. Calling our daughter Rachel (Google: 98 million hits) versus Rachael (14 million) hasn’t stopped the world and their spouse all wanting to sneak that extra little “a” into her name at every possible opportunity (Great-granny still hasn’t got it figured after 4 Christmases) But at least you won’t be further contributing to the problem. [/QUOTE] My daughter has that extra little “a” in her name and the school still spelled it wrong on her 8th grade promotion certificate. I’m afraid you can’t win, one “l” or two, you’ll be correcting people forever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-name-debate-colin-or-collin/437558.md?page=4)