Colie — boys' name
567 babies named Colie in U.S. Social Security records since 1911, with the highest year being 1912. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
28% of everyone ever named Colie was born in this single decade.
23 babies were named Colie in 1912 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Colie
The Social Security Administration has registered 567 babies named Colie between 1911 and 2020, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1912, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Colie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 101 additional births since 1912.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Colie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 156 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Colie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 256 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Colie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Colie 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 567 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.
Colie at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Colie popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1911
- Peak year (1912)
- 23
- Annual births at peak — across 110 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
567 total births across 110 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1912 with 23 births in a single year.
Colie popularity over time — girls
101 total births recorded since 1912 (Colie as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Colie accounts for 15% of total recorded use across both genders.
Colie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 156 births that decade — 28% of Colie's all-time total
Colie decade highlights
- Peak decade 156 births
- Runner-up 98 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Colie's strongest decade
156 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 28% of all-time use.
Colie by state
Where Colie concentrates geographically — total births since 1911
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | South Carolina | | 256 | 45.1% |
256 of 567 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- South Carolina 45.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
South Carolina accounts for 45.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1911–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.