Meaning not yet researched.
Colleen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #93 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #93 in 1966; #2,829 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Colleen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,829 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #93.
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Colleen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #93 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 4,546 (1964).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Colleen, making it the 2,829th most common girls’ name of the year, down 26 places from #2,803 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 60 girls named Colleen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #93, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,546, in 1964. For comparison, it was #1,816 in 2015 and #124 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Colleen in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 6 babies. In all, 163,084 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 40,762 babies named Colleen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 783 US girls were named Colleen; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 104. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Colleen ranked highest in Illinois in 2025, at #1,455 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Collin (81,962 babies since 1880), Cullen (16,703 babies since 1880) and Coleen (11,998 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Collen, Collyn and Kolleen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Collen (1,173), Collyn (1,088), Kolleen (1,016), Collene (1,009), Colen (528), Koleen (233), Collan (124), Colleene (120), Kollen (106), Coline (79), Colean (43), Coleene (42), and more.
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 Colleen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,455 | #1,085 |
| California | 6 | #2,849 | #2,351 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,010 | #2,972 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 2024 | 60 | #2,803 | — | — |
| 2023 | 83 | #2,246 | — | — |
| 2022 | 60 | #2,827 | — | — |
| 2021 | 65 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,603 | — | — |
| 2019 | 95 | #2,015 | — | — |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 2017 | 104 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 2016 | 102 | #1,961 | — | — |
| 2015 | 115 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 2013 | 149 | #1,489 | — | — |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,504 | — | — |
| 2011 | 154 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 2010 | 202 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2006 | 296 | #897 | — | — |
| 2005 | 340 | #775 | 6 | #10,345 |
| 2004 | 382 | #702 | — | — |
| 2003 | 433 | #620 | — | — |
| 2002 | 500 | #548 | — | — |
| 2001 | 636 | #439 | — | — |
| 2000 | 609 | #455 | — | — |
| 1999 | 690 | #403 | — | — |
| 1998 | 843 | #346 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,002 | #287 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,059 | #272 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,257 | #224 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,414 | #207 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,585 | #184 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,669 | #184 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,600 | #188 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,808 | #160 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,809 | #159 | 12 | #4,319 |
| 1988 | 1,704 | #167 | 6 | #6,567 |
| 1987 | 1,747 | #158 | 9 | #4,628 |
| 1986 | 1,841 | #152 | 7 | #5,436 |
| 1985 | 1,954 | #150 | 15 | #3,099 |
| 1984 | 2,067 | #144 | 6 | #5,706 |
| 1983 | 2,008 | #144 | 9 | #4,197 |
| 1982 | 2,145 | #139 | 8 | #4,667 |
| 1981 | 2,068 | #138 | 8 | #4,589 |
| 1980 | 2,125 | #137 | 14 | #3,125 |
| 1979 | 2,135 | #133 | 11 | #3,607 |
| 1978 | 2,057 | #133 | — | — |
| 1977 | 1,998 | #145 | 8 | #4,233 |
| 1976 | 2,043 | #136 | 7 | #4,527 |
| 1975 | 2,100 | #133 | 11 | #3,280 |
| 1974 | 2,344 | #123 | 10 | #3,365 |
| 1973 | 2,307 | #125 | 6 | #4,596 |
| 1972 | 2,503 | #123 | 10 | #3,198 |
| 1971 | 2,947 | #121 | 10 | #3,185 |
| 1970 | 3,325 | #117 | 13 | #2,645 |
| 1969 | 3,410 | #109 | 11 | #2,719 |
| 1968 | 3,485 | #101 | 6 | #3,757 |
| 1967 | 3,621 | #96 | 7 | #3,301 |
| 1966 | 3,746 | #93 | 13 | #2,238 |
| 1965 | 4,028 | #93 | 11 | #2,500 |
| 1964 | 4,546 | #94 | 14 | #2,228 |
| 1963 | 4,447 | #98 | 8 | #3,089 |
| 1962 | 4,425 | #101 | — | — |
| 1961 | 4,515 | #106 | 12 | #2,437 |
| 1960 | 4,450 | #107 | 7 | #3,395 |
| 1959 | 4,337 | #110 | 6 | #3,678 |
| 1958 | 3,922 | #116 | 7 | #3,326 |
| 1957 | 3,892 | #118 | 6 | #3,635 |
| 1956 | 3,897 | #113 | 5 | #4,040 |
| 1955 | 3,870 | #110 | — | — |
| 1954 | 3,483 | #119 | — | — |
| 1953 | 3,375 | #115 | 8 | #2,952 |
| 1952 | 3,470 | #108 | — | — |
| 1951 | 3,048 | #114 | — | — |
| 1950 | 2,619 | #124 | — | — |
| 1949 | 2,032 | #146 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,783 | #161 | — | — |
| 1947 | 1,267 | #209 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,093 | #213 | — | — |
| 1945 | 812 | #233 | 5 | #3,404 |
| 1944 | 724 | #248 | — | — |
| 1943 | 768 | #252 | — | — |
| 1942 | 745 | #251 | — | — |
| 1941 | 601 | #261 | — | — |
| 1940 | 648 | #249 | — | — |
| 1939 | 665 | #242 | — | — |
| 1938 | 697 | #235 | — | — |
| 1937 | 740 | #223 | — | — |
| 1936 | 853 | #198 | — | — |
| 1935 | 672 | #242 | — | — |
| 1934 | 712 | #236 | 7 | #3,027 |
| 1933 | 674 | #236 | 5 | #3,744 |
| 1932 | 709 | #227 | — | — |
| 1931 | 760 | #219 | — | — |
| 1930 | 946 | #201 | — | — |
| 1929 | 1,067 | #186 | — | — |
| 1928 | 1,099 | #185 | — | — |
| 1927 | 1,062 | #192 | 6 | #3,855 |
| 1926 | 945 | #204 | — | — |
| 1925 | 696 | #252 | — | — |
| 1924 | 524 | #289 | — | — |
| 1923 | 311 | #377 | — | — |
| 1922 | 185 | #513 | — | — |
| 1921 | 112 | #700 | — | — |
| 1920 | 79 | #818 | — | — |
| 1919 | 46 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1918 | 68 | #870 | — | — |
| 1917 | 69 | #826 | — | — |
| 1916 | 65 | #842 | — | — |
| 1915 | 52 | #917 | — | — |
| 1914 | 33 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1913 | 26 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1912 | 28 | #961 | — | — |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #967 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1906 | 5 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1901 | 6 | #1,519 | — | — |
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).