Coleman
About 17,628 American babies have been named Coleman since 1880, most of them around 1997. In 2025 it ranked 1,310th. About 13,000 Colemans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Coleman boys named Coleman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 17,628
- Estimated living today
- 13,000
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 497th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,310th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 29 / 17,599
How old the living Colemans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 17,628 babies given the name since 1880, about 13,000 are alive — 74 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 1,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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 a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Colemans
- Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969)American jazz saxophonist
- Arthur Coleman Danto (1924–2013)American art critic and philosopher
- Beals Coleman Wright (1879–1961)American tennis player
- Anna Coleman Ladd (1878–1939)American sculptor
- Coleman Scott (born 1986)Olympic wrestler
- Coleman Francis (1919–1973)American film director and actor
People named Coleman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Coleman is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Coleman is most concentrated in Alabama (4.5×), South Carolina (4.3×), Georgia (3.5×), Kentucky (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular boys’ names the year Coleman peaked:
Coleman elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Coleman | 127 | 208th |
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.
Related names
Coleman against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.