# Coleen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/coleen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Greek |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 11,998 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 11,998 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 35, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 19 | 6,123 |
| 2004 | 11 | 9,394 |
| 2005 | 16 | 7,219 |
| 2006 | 9 | 11,648 |
| 2007 | 14 | 8,627 |
| 2008 | 9 | 11,805 |
| 2009 | 10 | 10,862 |
| 2010 | 9 | 11,473 |
| 2012 | 6 | 15,394 |
| 2014 | 7 | 13,385 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,304 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,833 |
| 2017 | 5 | 16,414 |
| 2018 | 10 | 9,981 |
| 2023 | 5 | 15,705 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,683 |
| 1997 | 4 | 3,174 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4,294 |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,292 |
| 2009 | 6 | 3,422 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |

## People named Coleen

- Coleen Gray, American actress (1922–2015)
- Coleen Rowley, American FBI agent, whistleblower, political candidate for Congress
- Coleen Rooney, English writer and television personality
- Coleen Garcia, Filipino actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.