Koen
Koen was given to 448 boys in 2025, #623 among boys’ names; 5,190 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,140 Americans named Koen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 3 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Koen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Koen is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Borrowed from Dutch Koen.
/kuːn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Koen?
#623 among boys’ names, 2025
Koen rose from #1,013 in 2015 to #623 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.10 to 0.26 per 1,000.
468 babies in 2023, the peak
Koen peaked in 2023, when 468 boys were given it, #606 among boys’ names. The 453 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 448 | #623 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 401 | #681 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 468 | #606 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 310 | #807 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 219 | #1,002 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 162 | #1,191 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 148 | #1,269 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 161 | #1,185 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 148 | #1,242 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 181 | #1,087 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 201 | #1,013 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 215 | #977 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 179 | #1,056 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,080 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 166 | #1,113 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 213 | #945 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 216 | #944 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 242 | #876 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 160 | #1,126 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 233 | #861 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 154 | #1,074 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 144 | #1,099 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 69 | #1,753 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 62 | #1,836 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,461 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,903 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #3,936 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,390 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,860 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koen has been given almost only to boys: 20 girls in 30 years of records.
Girls and boys named Koen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koen, and how old are they?
5,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,190 Americans ever recorded as Koen. The median Koen alive today is 10 years old; half are between 3 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,127 people named Koen (40 women and girls, 3,087 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,230 |
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 Koen born?
The states with the most babies named Koen are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 39 | #716 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 26 | #417 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 23 | #694 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 18 | #359 | 0.8× |
| California | 16 | #1,219 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 16 | #462 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #608 | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 15 | #468 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 15 | #510 | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #340 | 1.4× |
Where Koen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Koen is most over-represented in Utah: since 1996 it was given 2.3 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 boys’ 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 Koen 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 42,685 babies since 1880, Koen is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 453 of their 3,434 babies (13%), again the third 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 Koen
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 Koen and names like it
- Compare Koen and CohenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKoen peaked in 2023.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Koen since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Koen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Koen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.