Coleen
Coleen is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 434th, in 1950.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1959423 births
- Best rank
- #434in 1950
- Since 1912
- 11,998people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,998 girls have been named Coleen in the United States since 1912, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 423 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 423 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1961, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Coleen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 60 | |
| 1920s | 356 | |
| 1930s | 731 | |
| 1940s | 1,052 | |
| 1950s | 3,308 | |
| 1960s | 3,567 | |
| 1970s | 1,605 | |
| 1980s | 738 | |
| 1990s | 386 | |
| 2000s | 138 | |
| 2010s | 52 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Coleen was the 469th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1959 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Coleen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Donitapeak 1962
- Nildapeak 1957
- Fondapeak 1963
- Nanettepeak 1957
- Paulapeak 1963
- Sheilapeak 1962
- Patricapeak 1962
- Cathleenpeak 1958
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.