Colleen — #2795 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Colleen

The Social Security Administration has registered 162,699 babies named Colleen between 1901 and 2024, spanning 124 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Colleen currently holds the #2795 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 4,544 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colleen performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 40,673 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Colleen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 18,685 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Colleen in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colleen 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 162,699 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.