Coen
Coen was given to 134 boys in 2025, #1,376 among boys’ names; 4,523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,480 Americans named Coen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Coen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Coen is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Also “a male given name from Dutch.”
(Jewish): Variant of Cohen.
(given name): As a modern given name, also a variant of Koen.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Coen?
#1,376 among boys’ names, 2025
Coen fell from #898 in 2015 to #1,376 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.08 per 1,000.
291 babies in 2016, the peak
Coen peaked in 2016, when 291 boys were given it, #800 among boys’ names. The 134 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 134 | #1,376 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 190 | #1,123 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 213 | #1,026 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 220 | #1,014 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 216 | #1,017 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 233 | #944 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 200 | #1,034 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 276 | #815 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 238 | #901 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 291 | #800 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 242 | #898 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 239 | #900 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 152 | #1,181 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 182 | #1,050 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 202 | #974 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 172 | #1,109 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 170 | #1,091 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 183 | #1,038 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 149 | #1,183 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 193 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 157 | #1,053 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 93 | #1,466 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 46 | #2,313 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 33 | #2,819 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,426 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,079 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,117 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,530 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,479 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,243 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,407 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coen has been given almost only to boys: 17 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Coen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coen, and how old are they?
4,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,523 Americans ever recorded as Coen. The median Coen alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 3,298 people named Coen (35 women and girls, 3,263 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,331 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,630 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,840 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Coen born?
The states with the most babies named Coen are Texas, California and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,572 | 0.8× |
| California | 9 | #1,714 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 8 | #957 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #929 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 8 | #522 | 1.9× |
| Washington | 6 | #918 | 1.7× |
| Oregon | 5 | #632 | 2.1× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,144 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 5 | #942 | 0.6× |
Where Coen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coen is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1991 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Coen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,126 babies since 1880, Coen is the fourth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 134 of their 3,520 babies (3.8%), again the fourth 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 Coen
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 Coen and names like it
- Compare Coen and CohenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCoen peaked in 2016.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coen since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Coen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Coen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Coen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.