Kolleen
Kolleen was last recorded in 2011, when 5 babies were given it; 1,016 Americans have been recorded with it between 1946 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,286, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
48 babies in 1962, the peak
Kolleen peaked in 1962, when 48 girls were given it, #1,639 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5 | #18,286 | 2.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,748 | 3.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,543 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,908 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,791 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,115 | 3.3 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,475 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,505 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,421 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,308 | 13.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | #7,266 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,277 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,179 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,168 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,387 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,469 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,796 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,422 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,246 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,077 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,438 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,432 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,418 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,917 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,427 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,563 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,527 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,460 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,339 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,258 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,171 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,636 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 23 | #3,006 | 13.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,476 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,255 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,331 | 17.1 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,736 | 12.7 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,279 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,088 | 18.1 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,739 | 23.7 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,512 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,639 | 24.4 |
| 1961 | 38 | #1,879 | 18.8 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,709 | 21.8 |
| 1959 | 27 | #2,215 | 13.3 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,285 | 12.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,382 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,248 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 15 | #3,037 | 7.7 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,237 | 6.7 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,837 | 5.3 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,368 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,021 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,151 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,452 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,738 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,870 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,708 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 908 Americans named Kolleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 44 and 64. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 935 people named Kolleen (933 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 940 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 Kolleen?
Kolleen is a less common spelling of Colleen: SSA has recorded 1,016 Kolleen and 163,084 Colleen since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 176,331 babies since 1880, Kolleen is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 60 babies recorded by SSA was a Kolleen (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Kolleen
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 Kolleen and names like it
- Compare Kolleen and ColleenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sKolleen peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolleen since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Kolleen.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Kolleen alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with KMost given first.