Colen
Colen was last recorded in 2005, when 10 babies were given it; 528 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,207, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1943, the peak
Colen peaked in 1943, when 19 boys were given it, #1,647 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | #7,207 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | #8,820 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,654 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,079 | 7.1 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,261 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #5,001 | 6.4 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,071 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,485 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,464 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,304 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 7 | #6,781 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,336 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,092 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #7,480 | 2.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,069 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,194 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,544 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,651 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,170 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,037 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,277 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,894 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,493 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,110 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 9 | #3,409 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,828 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,897 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,942 | 5.2 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,594 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,023 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,437 | 6.0 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,363 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,714 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,227 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,676 | 2.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,063 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,387 | 5.7 |
| 1954 | 5 | #3,923 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,908 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,146 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,879 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,384 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,480 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,641 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,391 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | #2,957 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,276 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,099 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 19 | #1,647 | 13.3 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,964 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,693 | 6.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #3,621 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,617 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,754 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,025 | 6.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,872 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,348 | 6.4 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,068 | 4.6 |
| 1928 | 6 | #3,788 | 5.4 |
| 1927 | 6 | #3,851 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 6 | #3,786 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,323 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,350 | 4.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,427 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,463 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,548 | 6.6 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,279 | 5.1 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,095 | 5.4 |
| 1913 | 5 | #2,907 | 9.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Colen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colen, and how old are they?
An estimated 331 Americans named Colen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (63% of everyone recorded); the median is 53 years old and half are between 33 and 67. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 433 people named Colen (22 women and girls, 411 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 366 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 222,887 babies since 1880, Colen is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,596 babies recorded by SSA was a Colen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Colen and names like it
- Compare Colen and ColinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sColen peaked in 1943.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colen since 1910.
- The top names of 1943The year the most babies were named Colen.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Colen alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.