Colman
Colman was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,072 among boys’ names; 1,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1909 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Colman mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Colman is “a male given name from Irish.” Its etymology gives the sense “dove” (columba).
From the Irish saints' name Colmán, diminutive of Colm, from Latin columba (“dove”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Colman?
#9,072 among boys’ names, 2025
Colman fell from #5,554 in 2015 to #9,072 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 4.7 per million.
27 babies in 2002, the peak
Colman peaked in 2002, when 27 boys were given it, #3,273 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,072 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,875 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,939 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,152 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,779 | 6.9 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,848 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,534 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,039 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,981 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,554 | 8.3 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #8,921 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #9,845 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,279 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,190 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,754 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 19 | #4,955 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,458 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,329 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,342 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,291 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,287 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,854 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 27 | #3,273 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,862 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,235 | 9.2 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,494 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,447 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 23 | #3,173 | 12.2 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,419 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,323 | 10.5 |
| 1994 | 15 | #4,114 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,754 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,720 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,428 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,530 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,719 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #5,866 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,762 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,630 | 4.4 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,769 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,208 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,653 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,614 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,112 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,035 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,758 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,062 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,595 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,293 | 3.8 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,090 | 3.9 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,395 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,091 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,612 | 2.8 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,599 | 2.8 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,192 | 3.5 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,232 | 6.7 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,362 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,477 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,132 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,615 | 3.1 |
| 1944 | 6 | #3,171 | 4.4 |
| 1943 | 12 | #2,197 | 8.4 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,410 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,589 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #2,704 | 6.9 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,189 | 9.9 |
| 1938 | 15 | #1,839 | 13.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,618 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 7 | #2,920 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,567 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,423 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 15 | #1,843 | 15.1 |
| 1932 | 16 | #1,860 | 15.3 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,228 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,097 | 12.8 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,113 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,066 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,884 | 16.0 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,600 | 9.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #3,824 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,974 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,799 | 9.1 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,305 | 7.4 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,920 | 16.3 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,155 | 14.1 |
| 1919 | 16 | #1,991 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 23 | #1,552 | 22.7 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,586 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 12 | #2,290 | 13.5 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,204 | 14.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,995 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 9 | #1,975 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,331 | 14.0 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,100 | 48.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Colman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colman, and how old are they?
An estimated 630 Americans named Colman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (60% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 17 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 770 people named Colman (10 women and girls, 760 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 629 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 18,922 babies since 1880, Colman is the second most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 165 babies (4.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Colman
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 Colman and names like it
- Compare Colman and ColemanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sColman peaked in 2002.
- Massachusetts’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colman since 1910.
- Irish namesWiktionary’s origin for Colman: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Colman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Colman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.