Coleman — #1279 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Coleman

The Social Security Administration has registered 17,451 babies named Coleman between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Coleman currently holds the #1279 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 421 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Coleman performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 3,498 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Coleman shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,382 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Coleman in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Coleman in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 17,451 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.