Colen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Colen

The Social Security Administration has registered 528 babies named Colen between 1913 and 2005, spanning 93 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1943, when 19 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colen performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Colen shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Colen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colen 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 528 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.