Coral
Coral was given to 100 girls in 2025, #1,931 among girls’ names; 11,162 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,910 Americans named Coral and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 15 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coral by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Coral mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Coral is “a female given name from English.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Coral?
#1,931 among girls’ names, 2025
Coral fell from #1,224 in 2015 to #1,931 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.06 per 1,000.
224 babies in 2004, the peak
Coral peaked in 2004, when 224 girls were given it, #1,037 among girls’ names. The 100 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,931 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,898 | 0.06 |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,890 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,776 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,615 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,617 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 183 | #1,269 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,426 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,424 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 202 | #1,219 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (145)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 202 | #1,224 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 208 | #1,180 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,405 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,399 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 157 | #1,446 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,512 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,462 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,358 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 211 | #1,156 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,122 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 224 | #1,037 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 190 | #1,139 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 172 | #1,189 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 175 | #1,174 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 160 | #1,235 | 0.09 |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,046 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,134 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 173 | #1,087 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 177 | #1,044 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,087 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 180 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 175 | #1,048 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 194 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 191 | #981 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,075 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,277 | 0.07 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,644 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,520 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,461 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,271 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,435 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 80 | #1,451 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,403 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,436 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,302 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,583 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,528 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,523 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,643 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,631 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,180 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,140 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,300 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,127 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,141 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,888 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,066 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,467 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,485 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,355 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,266 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,218 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 96 | #1,096 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,125 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 88 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 102 | #1,038 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,210 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,108 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 53 | #1,332 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 63 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,338 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,271 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,173 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,033 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,143 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,093 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,316 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,295 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 50 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,058 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,102 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 57 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,103 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,178 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 50 | #1,035 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,366 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,170 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 56 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,287 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,062 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 53 | #954 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 49 | #982 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,372 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,155 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,009 | 0.05 |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,315 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 23 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 17 | #995 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 17 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1906 | 19 | #850 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 22 | #783 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 21 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 16 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,154 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,061 | 0.04 |
| 1899 | 14 | #883 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 21 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 19 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1896 | 23 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1895 | 18 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 17 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1893 | 16 | #746 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 17 | #708 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 15 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 19 | #604 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 14 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1888 | 26 | #488 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 16 | #563 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 13 | #640 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 11 | #663 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 9 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 12 | #564 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 7 | #758 | 0.06 |
| 1881 | 8 | #639 | 0.09 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Coral a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 11,162 Americans recorded as Coral, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 100 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Coral: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coral, and how old are they?
8,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 11,162 Americans ever recorded as Coral. The median Coral alive today is 28 years old; half are between 15 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 9,062 people named Coral (8,907 women and girls, 155 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,567 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 244 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,080 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 801 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,950 |
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).
Where are babies named Coral born?
The states with the most babies named Coral are California, Florida and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,193 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,129 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,450 | 0.8× |
Where Coral is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coral is most over-represented in Florida: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Coral with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 12,065 babies since 1880, Coral is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 100 of their 107 babies (93%), again the most given.
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 Coral
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 Coral and names like it
- Compare Coral and KoralBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCoral peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coral since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Coral: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Coral.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Coral alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.