Meaning not yet researched.
Coral: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 100 in 2025. Its best rank was #488 in 1888.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #488 in 1888; #1,931 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Coral in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,931 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1888, at #488.
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Coral: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 100 girls in 2025. Peak: #488 in 1888 · most girls in one year: 224 (2004).
In 2025, 100 US girls were named Coral, making it the 1,931st most common girls’ name of the year, down 33 places from #1,898 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 105 girls named Coral in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #488, reached in 1888. The most girls given the name in a single year was 224, in 2004. For comparison, it was #1,224 in 2015 and #1,202 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Coral in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 8 babies. In all, 11,162 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 1.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,837 babies named Coral.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,385 US girls were named Coral; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 202. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,073 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Coral ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,129 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Coralie (2,892 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Koral and Corell 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Koral (903), Corell (27).
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 Coral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 13 | #1,129 | #614 |
| California | 21 | #1,193 | #778 |
| Texas | 8 | #2,450 | #1,425 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 100 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 2024 | 105 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 2021 | 130 | #1,615 | — | — |
| 2020 | 129 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 2019 | 183 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 2018 | 155 | #1,426 | — | — |
| 2017 | 160 | #1,424 | — | — |
| 2016 | 202 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 2015 | 202 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 2014 | 208 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 2013 | 163 | #1,405 | — | — |
| 2012 | 165 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 2011 | 149 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 2010 | 157 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2009 | 151 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 2008 | 161 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2007 | 178 | #1,358 | — | — |
| 2006 | 211 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 2005 | 210 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2004 | 224 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2003 | 190 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 2002 | 172 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 2001 | 175 | #1,175 | 5 | #10,888 |
| 2000 | 160 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1999 | 194 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1998 | 167 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1997 | 173 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1996 | 177 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1994 | 180 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1993 | 175 | #1,050 | 5 | #8,960 |
| 1992 | 194 | #983 | — | — |
| 1991 | 191 | #983 | 5 | #8,416 |
| 1990 | 164 | #1,077 | 5 | #8,351 |
| 1989 | 123 | #1,280 | 7 | #6,340 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1987 | 84 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1986 | 87 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1985 | 106 | #1,271 | — | — |
| 1984 | 81 | #1,435 | — | — |
| 1983 | 80 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,403 | — | — |
| 1981 | 85 | #1,436 | — | — |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1979 | 87 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1978 | 68 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1977 | 71 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1976 | 67 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1975 | 59 | #1,643 | — | — |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1973 | 36 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,140 | 5 | #5,117 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,300 | — | — |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1967 | 39 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1966 | 32 | #2,067 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1963 | 67 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1962 | 76 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1961 | 82 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1960 | 96 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1959 | 90 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1958 | 88 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1957 | 102 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1955 | 86 | #1,089 | 6 | #3,567 |
| 1954 | 79 | #1,109 | 5 | #3,927 |
| 1953 | 53 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1952 | 60 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1951 | 63 | #1,179 | — | — |
| 1950 | 59 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,339 | 6 | #3,381 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1947 | 59 | #1,174 | 5 | #3,828 |
| 1946 | 67 | #1,034 | 6 | #3,241 |
| 1945 | 47 | #1,144 | 6 | #3,052 |
| 1944 | 38 | #1,296 | 7 | #2,916 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,230 | 6 | #3,284 |
| 1942 | 52 | #1,093 | 7 | #2,984 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1940 | 33 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1939 | 50 | #998 | 5 | #3,587 |
| 1938 | 46 | #1,058 | 5 | #3,625 |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,102 | 5 | #3,621 |
| 1936 | 57 | #901 | — | — |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,083 | — | — |
| 1933 | 34 | #1,229 | 7 | #3,066 |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,166 | — | — |
| 1931 | 37 | #1,178 | 5 | #3,879 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,090 | 7 | #3,353 |
| 1929 | 50 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1928 | 51 | #1,052 | — | — |
| 1927 | 35 | #1,367 | — | — |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,170 | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1925 | 40 | #1,227 | 9 | #2,973 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1923 | 44 | #1,160 | 6 | #3,910 |
| 1922 | 56 | #998 | — | — |
| 1921 | 44 | #1,152 | 12 | #2,520 |
| 1920 | 36 | #1,287 | 6 | #3,916 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,062 | 5 | #4,284 |
| 1918 | 47 | #1,065 | 5 | #4,302 |
| 1917 | 53 | #954 | 10 | #2,589 |
| 1916 | 49 | #982 | 12 | #2,292 |
| 1915 | 27 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1913 | 29 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1912 | 17 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1911 | 23 | #906 | — | — |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1909 | 17 | #995 | — | — |
| 1908 | 17 | #973 | — | — |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1906 | 19 | #850 | — | — |
| 1905 | 22 | #783 | — | — |
| 1904 | 13 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1903 | 21 | #739 | — | — |
| 1902 | 16 | #875 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1899 | 14 | #883 | — | — |
| 1898 | 21 | #721 | — | — |
| 1897 | 19 | #719 | — | — |
| 1896 | 23 | #657 | — | — |
| 1895 | 18 | #748 | — | — |
| 1894 | 17 | #721 | — | — |
| 1893 | 16 | #746 | — | — |
| 1892 | 17 | #708 | — | — |
| 1891 | 15 | #698 | — | — |
| 1890 | 19 | #604 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #692 | — | — |
| 1888 | 26 | #488 | — | — |
| 1887 | 16 | #563 | — | — |
| 1886 | 13 | #640 | — | — |
| 1885 | 11 | #663 | — | — |
| 1884 | 9 | #746 | — | — |
| 1883 | 12 | #564 | — | — |
| 1882 | 7 | #758 | — | — |
| 1881 | 8 | #639 | — | — |
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).