girls:
12k births since 1912
#1433 (75th percentile)
overall:
12k births since 1912
#2402 (69th percentile)
The name Coleen is the #2,402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,998 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 69.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,433 (74.9% percentile) for all time with 11,998 births since 1912.
Coleen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (first recorded for girls in 1912). Birth data for Coleen is available in 104 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Coleen reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 43.6% percentile (ranked #436) with 210 births per million. The name was most common in 1963, with 210 births per million (ranked 43.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Coleen ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coleen".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Coleen", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 34 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Colleen" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Colleen..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Coleen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Coleen is pronounced as koh-LEEN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KOH-leen, at 31.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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