Meaning not yet researched.
Cole: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,003 in 2025. Its best rank was #69 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #69 in 2003; #182 in 2025. About 99.7% of babies named Cole in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#182 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #69.
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Cole: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,003 boys in 2025. Peak: #69 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 6,038 (2002).
In 2025, 2,003 US boys were named Cole, making it the 182nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 20 places from #162 in 2024. That is 221 fewer than the 2,224 boys named Cole in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #69, reached in 2003. The most boys given the name in a single year was 6,038, in 2002. For comparison, it was #115 in 2015 and #1,369 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cole in 121 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1886 with 6 babies. In all, 154,646 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 57,013 babies named Cole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 28,336 US boys were named Cole; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,604. In 2025 that was about 1 in 853 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cole ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #66 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 4 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kole (9,855 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kol, Cohl and Coal are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Colie.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kol (460), Cohl (213), Coal (176), Coyle (116), Kule (95), Kohle (90), Coel (22).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Cole is listed as a nickname for Nichole, Nicholette, Nicole.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 22 | #66 | #58 |
| Massachusetts | 95 | #67 | #66 |
| Rhode Island | 14 | #72 | #75 |
| Connecticut | 39 | #90 | #87 |
| New Jersey | 93 | #104 | #82 |
| Pennsylvania | 121 | #105 | #68 |
| Michigan | 88 | #109 | #89 |
| New York | 161 | #111 | #116 |
| Maryland | 46 | #129 | #84 |
| Maine | 10 | #130 | #66 |
| Utah | 38 | #137 | #91 |
| Virginia | 61 | #150 | #112 |
| South Dakota | 9 | #153 | #84 |
| Louisiana | 33 | #154 | #111 |
| Missouri | 45 | #156 | #86 |
| Illinois | 76 | #157 | #116 |
| Montana | 8 | #160 | #163 |
| Colorado | 44 | #163 | #131 |
| Ohio | 78 | #170 | #86 |
| West Virginia | 11 | #171 | #155 |
| Kentucky | 32 | #173 | #106 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #174 | #159 |
| Delaware | 6 | #175 | #53 |
| Wisconsin | 33 | #186 | #94 |
| Iowa | 21 | #195 | #102 |
| Kansas | 20 | #200 | #96 |
| Arkansas | 18 | #201 | #115 |
| Florida | 103 | #209 | #147 |
| Minnesota | 31 | #210 | #112 |
| Idaho | 12 | #219 | #82 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #220 | #192 |
| Mississippi | 14 | #221 | #185 |
| Washington | 36 | #223 | #124 |
| North Carolina | 56 | #224 | #116 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #225 | #98 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #231 | #96 |
| Nevada | 13 | #231 | #236 |
| Arizona | 35 | #232 | #148 |
| Oregon | 18 | #235 | #125 |
| Indiana | 32 | #255 | #96 |
| Oklahoma | 19 | #258 | #122 |
| California | 144 | #259 | #171 |
| Tennessee | 34 | #260 | #152 |
| South Carolina | 21 | #268 | #180 |
| Texas | 135 | #286 | #214 |
| Alabama | 14 | #379 | #277 |
| Georgia | 26 | #428 | #177 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,569 | 2,003 | #182 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,850 | 2,224 | #162 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,731 | 2,364 | #155 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,430 | 2,626 | #144 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,592 | 2,835 | #132 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,717 | 2,771 | #133 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,101 | 3,093 | #123 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,250 | 3,348 | #118 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,918 | 3,468 | #116 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,718 | 3,604 | #110 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,715 | 3,499 | #115 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,189 | 3,426 | #116 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,701 | 3,454 | #114 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,233 | 3,779 | #102 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,739 | 4,140 | #94 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,605 | 4,590 | #90 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,544 | 5,278 | #82 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,863 | 5,389 | #85 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,626 | 5,703 | #84 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,485 | 5,640 | #84 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,989 | 5,587 | #79 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,411 | 5,648 | #75 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,312 | 5,898 | #69 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,777 | 6,038 | #69 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,308 | 5,739 | #74 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,997 | 5,926 | #71 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,567 | 5,317 | #75 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,645 | 5,148 | #77 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,235 | 5,159 | #72 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,238 | 3,737 | #106 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,025 | 3,150 | #118 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,713 | 3,302 | #111 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,192 | 2,665 | #130 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,374 | 2,312 | #143 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,677 | 1,978 | #162 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,414 | 1,100 | #248 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,906 | 909 | #272 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,193 | 904 | #260 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,963 | 1,003 | #234 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,246 | 1,070 | #220 |
| 1985 | — | — | 1,185 | #204 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,003 | 1,163 | #202 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,933 | 1,112 | #209 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,611 | 806 | #266 |
| 1981 | — | — | 299 | #484 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,316 | 271 | #516 |
| 1979 | — | — | 158 | #679 |
| 1978 | — | — | 149 | #687 |
| 1977 | — | — | 157 | #676 |
| 1976 | — | — | 144 | #693 |
| 1975 | — | — | 158 | #653 |
| 1974 | — | — | 181 | #592 |
| 1973 | — | — | 159 | #624 |
| 1972 | — | — | 140 | #679 |
| 1971 | — | — | 99 | #812 |
| 1970 | — | — | 99 | #812 |
| 1969 | — | — | 83 | #844 |
| 1968 | — | — | 69 | #869 |
| 1967 | — | — | 53 | #995 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,033 |
| 1965 | — | — | 68 | #892 |
| 1964 | — | — | 64 | #953 |
| 1963 | — | — | 63 | #947 |
| 1962 | — | — | 83 | #832 |
| 1961 | — | — | 98 | #777 |
| 1960 | — | — | 72 | #892 |
| 1959 | — | — | 69 | #920 |
| 1958 | — | — | 72 | #890 |
| 1957 | — | — | 73 | #885 |
| 1956 | — | — | 61 | #956 |
| 1955 | — | — | 62 | #950 |
| 1954 | — | — | 64 | #929 |
| 1953 | — | — | 40 | #1,171 |
| 1952 | — | — | 43 | #1,116 |
| 1951 | — | — | 50 | #994 |
| 1950 | — | — | 28 | #1,369 |
| 1949 | — | — | 30 | #1,327 |
| 1948 | — | — | 40 | #1,129 |
| 1947 | — | — | 34 | #1,256 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,704 |
| 1945 | — | — | 8 | #2,600 |
| 1944 | — | — | 12 | #2,099 |
| 1943 | — | — | 22 | #1,494 |
| 1942 | — | — | 28 | #1,319 |
| 1941 | — | — | 22 | #1,457 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,354 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,880 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,102 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,107 |
| 1936 | — | — | 14 | #1,890 |
| 1935 | — | — | 9 | #2,565 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,669 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,399 |
| 1932 | — | — | 18 | #1,728 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,863 |
| 1930 | — | — | 11 | #2,473 |
| 1929 | — | — | 13 | #2,228 |
| 1928 | — | — | 15 | #2,065 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,735 |
| 1926 | — | — | 16 | #1,997 |
| 1925 | — | — | 18 | #1,884 |
| 1924 | — | — | 16 | #2,062 |
| 1923 | — | — | 21 | #1,705 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,904 |
| 1921 | — | — | 19 | #1,841 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,806 |
| 1919 | — | — | 22 | #1,583 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,920 |
| 1917 | — | — | 19 | #1,707 |
| 1916 | — | — | 25 | #1,381 |
| 1915 | — | — | 26 | #1,312 |
| 1914 | — | — | 23 | #1,228 |
| 1913 | — | — | 19 | #1,177 |
| 1912 | — | — | 23 | #941 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,130 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,456 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,498 |
| 1907 | — | — | 5 | #1,382 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,194 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,081 |
| 1886 | — | — | 6 | #859 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).