Collen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Collen

The Social Security Administration has registered 661 babies named Collen between 1969 and 2023, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Collen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Collen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 512 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Collen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 242 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Collen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Collen in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Collen 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 661 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.