Coast
Coast is given to both girls and boys: 31 girls and 274 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,473 among girls’ names and #875 among boys’, #1,667 among all names counting both); 852 Americans have been recorded with it since 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Coast climbed 265 places in 2025, the #14 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coast by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coast?
#875 among boys’ names, 2025
Coast rose from #8,900 in 2015 to #875 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.00 to 0.16 per 1,000.
305 babies in 2025, the peak
Coast peaked in 2025, when 305 babies were given it (274 boys, #875 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 185 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,473 | 274 | #875 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,998 | 185 | #1,140 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,110 | 109 | #1,592 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,846 | 65 | #2,220 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,757 | 48 | #2,657 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,310 | 24 | #4,162 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,189 | 21 | #4,665 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #9,870 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 12 | #6,757 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 5 | #12,560 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #8,900 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 7 | #9,831 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Coast a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 852 Americans recorded as Coast, 10% are girls and 90% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Coast: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coast, and how old are they?
An estimated 847 Americans named Coast and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 2 years old and half are between 1 and 4. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,029 babies since 1880, Coast is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 305 of their 411 babies (74%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Coast
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Coast and names like it
- Compare Coast and KoastBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCoast peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coast since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Coast.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coast alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.