Coley — #9883 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Coley

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,021 babies named Coley between 1881 and 2024, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Coley currently holds the #9883 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 37 babies received it in a single year. Coley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 340 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Coley performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 233 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Coley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 103 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Coley in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Coley 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 2,021 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.