Meaning not yet researched.
Coleman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 148 in 2025. Its best rank was #360 in 1903.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #360 in 1903; #1,311 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Coleman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,311 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1903, at #360.
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Coleman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 148 boys in 2025. Peak: #360 in 1903 · most boys in one year: 420 (1997).
In 2025, 148 US boys were named Coleman, making it the 1,311th most common boys’ name of the year, down 34 places from #1,277 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 154 boys named Coleman in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #360, reached in 1903. The most boys given the name in a single year was 420, in 1997. For comparison, it was #884 in 2015 and #727 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Coleman in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 12 babies with the name. In all, 17,628 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,498 babies named Coleman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,882 US boys were named Coleman; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 246. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,541 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Coleman ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #440 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Koleman and Colemon are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Koleman (249), Colemon (13).
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.
No nicknames listed for Coleman in the open dataset we use.
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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 11 | #440 | #280 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #639 | #360 |
| Alabama | 6 | #697 | #531 |
| Utah | 5 | #722 | #698 |
| Missouri | 7 | #732 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #800 | #503 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #804 | #740 |
| Virginia | 8 | #816 | #519 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,030 | #868 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,062 | #638 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,273 | #865 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,276 | #1,195 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,311 | #595 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,497 | #1,111 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 148 | #1,311 |
| 2024 | — | — | 154 | #1,277 |
| 2023 | — | — | 176 | #1,170 |
| 2022 | — | — | 178 | #1,158 |
| 2021 | — | — | 175 | #1,149 |
| 2020 | — | — | 203 | #1,022 |
| 2019 | — | — | 182 | #1,095 |
| 2018 | — | — | 208 | #995 |
| 2017 | — | — | 246 | #873 |
| 2016 | — | — | 212 | #971 |
| 2015 | — | — | 251 | #884 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,146 | 223 | #948 |
| 2013 | — | — | 252 | #845 |
| 2012 | — | — | 256 | #841 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,680 | 221 | #913 |
| 2010 | — | — | 273 | #795 |
| 2009 | — | — | 276 | #806 |
| 2008 | — | — | 307 | #742 |
| 2007 | — | — | 350 | #680 |
| 2006 | — | — | 347 | #661 |
| 2005 | — | — | 363 | #616 |
| 2004 | — | — | 331 | #637 |
| 2003 | — | — | 368 | #589 |
| 2002 | — | — | 399 | #554 |
| 2001 | — | — | 369 | #563 |
| 2000 | — | — | 388 | #544 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,909 | 354 | #564 |
| 1998 | — | — | 391 | #528 |
| 1997 | — | — | 420 | #497 |
| 1996 | — | — | 345 | #546 |
| 1995 | — | — | 340 | #552 |
| 1994 | — | — | 303 | #592 |
| 1993 | — | — | 284 | #617 |
| 1992 | — | — | 254 | #648 |
| 1991 | — | — | 195 | #727 |
| 1990 | — | — | 166 | #786 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,907 | 145 | #826 |
| 1988 | — | — | 137 | #810 |
| 1987 | — | — | 172 | #689 |
| 1986 | — | — | 150 | #741 |
| 1985 | — | — | 140 | #753 |
| 1984 | — | — | 120 | #797 |
| 1983 | — | — | 123 | #786 |
| 1982 | — | — | 123 | #798 |
| 1981 | — | — | 91 | #939 |
| 1980 | — | — | 76 | #1,039 |
| 1979 | — | — | 75 | #1,024 |
| 1978 | — | — | 61 | #1,122 |
| 1977 | — | — | 43 | #1,394 |
| 1976 | — | — | 48 | #1,268 |
| 1975 | — | — | 57 | #1,114 |
| 1974 | — | — | 59 | #1,074 |
| 1973 | — | — | 47 | #1,203 |
| 1972 | — | — | 47 | #1,197 |
| 1971 | — | — | 44 | #1,256 |
| 1970 | — | — | 52 | #1,142 |
| 1969 | — | — | 59 | #1,002 |
| 1968 | — | — | 67 | #878 |
| 1967 | — | — | 45 | #1,105 |
| 1966 | — | — | 45 | #1,101 |
| 1965 | — | — | 54 | #1,003 |
| 1964 | — | — | 53 | #1,038 |
| 1963 | — | — | 52 | #1,055 |
| 1962 | — | — | 75 | #882 |
| 1961 | — | — | 72 | #902 |
| 1960 | — | — | 64 | #945 |
| 1959 | — | — | 65 | #955 |
| 1958 | — | — | 75 | #872 |
| 1957 | — | — | 78 | #850 |
| 1956 | — | — | 98 | #741 |
| 1955 | — | — | 70 | #886 |
| 1954 | — | — | 87 | #763 |
| 1953 | — | — | 80 | #799 |
| 1952 | — | — | 82 | #776 |
| 1951 | — | — | 93 | #721 |
| 1950 | — | — | 89 | #727 |
| 1949 | — | — | 97 | #693 |
| 1948 | — | — | 102 | #669 |
| 1947 | — | — | 114 | #645 |
| 1946 | — | — | 94 | #668 |
| 1945 | — | — | 72 | #719 |
| 1944 | — | — | 85 | #675 |
| 1943 | — | — | 95 | #655 |
| 1942 | — | — | 68 | #781 |
| 1941 | — | — | 86 | #660 |
| 1940 | — | — | 88 | #636 |
| 1939 | — | — | 81 | #661 |
| 1938 | — | — | 90 | #629 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,373 | 80 | #666 |
| 1936 | — | — | 93 | #601 |
| 1935 | — | — | 73 | #710 |
| 1934 | — | — | 116 | #549 |
| 1933 | — | — | 77 | #672 |
| 1932 | — | — | 92 | #620 |
| 1931 | — | — | 87 | #635 |
| 1930 | — | — | 108 | #576 |
| 1929 | — | — | 118 | #537 |
| 1928 | — | — | 108 | #594 |
| 1927 | — | — | 115 | #577 |
| 1926 | — | — | 130 | #534 |
| 1925 | — | — | 126 | #547 |
| 1924 | — | — | 107 | #617 |
| 1923 | — | — | 122 | #566 |
| 1922 | — | — | 112 | #612 |
| 1921 | — | — | 146 | #513 |
| 1920 | — | — | 112 | #591 |
| 1919 | — | — | 130 | #522 |
| 1918 | — | — | 133 | #520 |
| 1917 | — | — | 110 | #561 |
| 1916 | — | — | 120 | #520 |
| 1915 | — | — | 116 | #518 |
| 1914 | — | — | 102 | #481 |
| 1913 | — | — | 75 | #502 |
| 1912 | — | — | 69 | #472 |
| 1911 | — | — | 36 | #489 |
| 1910 | — | — | 40 | #433 |
| 1909 | — | — | 38 | #399 |
| 1908 | — | — | 21 | #558 |
| 1907 | — | — | 24 | #475 |
| 1906 | — | — | 15 | #621 |
| 1905 | — | — | 21 | #494 |
| 1904 | — | — | 28 | #390 |
| 1903 | — | — | 28 | #360 |
| 1902 | — | — | 17 | #526 |
| 1901 | — | — | 19 | #435 |
| 1900 | — | — | 26 | #449 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #728 |
| 1898 | — | — | 19 | #474 |
| 1897 | — | — | 25 | #377 |
| 1896 | — | — | 18 | #487 |
| 1895 | — | — | 12 | #612 |
| 1894 | — | — | 14 | #547 |
| 1893 | — | — | 20 | #404 |
| 1892 | — | — | 21 | #416 |
| 1891 | — | — | 16 | #444 |
| 1890 | — | — | 15 | #494 |
| 1889 | — | — | 12 | #560 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #468 |
| 1887 | — | — | 18 | #395 |
| 1886 | — | — | 11 | #578 |
| 1885 | — | — | 17 | #444 |
| 1884 | — | — | 14 | #507 |
| 1883 | — | — | 12 | #534 |
| 1882 | — | — | 18 | #431 |
| 1881 | — | — | 16 | #433 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #538 |
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).