Collene — girls' name
1,009 babies named Collene in U.S. Social Security records since 1922, with the highest year being 1958. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
20% of everyone ever named Collene was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Collene in 1958 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Collene
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,009 babies named Collene between 1922 and 2003, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Collene currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2003. The name reached its historical peak in 1958, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Collene performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 200 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Collene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Collene in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Collene 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 1,009 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.
Collene at a glance
Last recorded 2003Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Collene popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2003–1922
- Peak year (1958)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 82 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2003.
1,009 total births across 82 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1958 with 33 births in a single year.
Collene by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 200 births that decade — 20% of Collene's all-time total
Collene decade highlights
- Peak decade 200 births
- Runner-up 197 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Collene's strongest decade
200 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 20% of all-time use.
Collene by state
Where Collene concentrates geographically — total births since 1922
Top 5 states
- Ohio 0.6% of nationwide
- Michigan 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 0.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile 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, 1922–2003 (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.