Koleman
Koleman was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,618 among boys’ names; 249 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koleman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koleman?
#8,618 among boys’ names, 2025
Koleman rose from #13,168 in 2015 to #8,618 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 5.3 per million.
16 babies in 1998, the peak
Koleman peaked in 1998, when 16 boys were given it, #4,310 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,618 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,377 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,303 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,682 | 5.2 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,322 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,373 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,426 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,278 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,516 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,551 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #13,168 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,510 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,329 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,316 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,824 | 5.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,704 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,004 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,608 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,202 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 13 | #6,057 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,902 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,015 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,578 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,873 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,861 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,310 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,770 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koleman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koleman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koleman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koleman, and how old are they?
An estimated 246 Americans named Koleman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Koleman (3 women and girls, 222 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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).
How common is the spelling Koleman?
Koleman is a less common spelling of Coleman: SSA has recorded 249 Koleman and 17,628 Coleman since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 18,922 babies since 1880, Koleman is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 165 babies (5.5%), the second 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 Koleman
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 Koleman and names like it
- Compare Koleman and ColemanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKoleman peaked in 1998.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Koleman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koleman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.