Coleen
Coleen reached its high-water mark in 1959 at number 469, and has been recorded 11,998 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 9,400 Coleens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Coleen
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 11,998
- Estimated living today
- 9,400
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 469th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Coleens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 11,998 babies given the name since 1912, about 9,400 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 80 of them are children and 3,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Coleens
- Coleen Gray (1922–2015)American actress
- Coleen Rowley (born 1954)American FBI agent, whistleblower, political candidate for Congress
- Coleen Rooney (born 1986)English writer and television personality
People named Coleen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Coleen is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Coleen is most concentrated in Iowa (2.8×), New Jersey (2.6×), Pennsylvania (2.4×), Kansas (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Coleen peaked:
Coleen elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Coleen | 1,645 | 463rd |
| Scotland girls | Coleen | 139 | 251st |
| Ireland girls | Coleen | 76 | 612th |
| France boys | Coleen | 50 | 4,482nd |
| England and Wales girls | Coleen | 35 | 2,292nd |
| Belgium girls | Coleen | 25 | 801st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Coleen | 4 | 363rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Coleen: rank by region
In 2008, Coleen was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Coleen | 370 | 8 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Coleen against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.