Collen
Collen was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 1,173 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Collen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 21 and 46.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Collen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Collen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,938, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1996, the peak
Collen peaked in 1996, when 37 babies were given it (29 boys, #2,601 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #9,938 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 9 | #8,304 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 6 | #10,863 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,336 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,216 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 11 | #7,183 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 14 | #6,097 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 8 | #8,902 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 6 | #10,984 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 19 | #4,829 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | under 5 | 21 | #4,563 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 17 | #5,238 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 30 | #3,550 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 32 | #3,412 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 20 | #4,742 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 21 | #4,523 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 21 | #4,379 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 22 | #4,074 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 29 | #3,292 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,306 | 19 | #4,300 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 31 | #2,951 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 21 | #3,861 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,551 | 26 | #3,222 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 19 | #3,859 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 22 | #3,401 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 33 | #2,459 | |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,756 | 29 | #2,601 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 21 | #3,204 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,881 | 18 | #3,616 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,102 | 20 | #3,256 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,076 | 17 | #3,629 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,495 | 11 | #4,809 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,625 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,600 | 10 | #4,871 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,730 | 7 | #5,865 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,319 | 5 | #7,143 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,718 | 6 | #6,073 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,306 | 5 | #6,708 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,605 | 7 | #5,070 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,509 | 5 | #6,412 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,913 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,526 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,292 | 6 | #5,652 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,148 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,774 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #6,996 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,730 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,063 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,059 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,661 | 5 | #5,227 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,560 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,972 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,744 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,485 | 5 | #4,502 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,253 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,795 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,769 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,429 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,575 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,599 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,391 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 12 | #3,815 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,504 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,862 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,581 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,267 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,112 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,443 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,857 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,387 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,311 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,164 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,851 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,113 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,222 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,484 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,972 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Collen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,173 Americans recorded as Collen, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Collen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Collen, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,173 Americans ever recorded as Collen. The median Collen alive today is 31 years old; half are between 21 and 46.
The 2020 Census counted 1,451 people named Collen (750 women and girls, 701 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,084 born in the U.S. The Census count is 34% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 81 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 198 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 316 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 387 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 223,724 babies since 1880, Collen is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,616 babies recorded by SSA was a Collen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Collen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Collen and names like it
- Compare Collen and ColinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sCollen peaked in 1996.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Collen since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Collen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Collen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.