Colleen
Colleen is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 60 births. Its best rank was 93rd, in 1965–1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 600.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19644,544 births
- Best rank
- #93first in 1965
- Since 1901
- 162,699people given the name
The story in the numbers
162,699 girls have been named Colleen in the United States since 1901, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 4,544 births — 0.24% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 60 births in 2024, against 4,544 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 25%. It has spent 93 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 5 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Colleen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 413 | |
| 1920s | 6,080 | |
| 1930s | 7,428 | |
| 1940s | 10,472 | |
| 1950s | 35,913 | |
| 1960s | 40,673 | |
| 1970s | 23,761 | |
| 1980s | 19,470 | |
| 1990s | 12,929 | |
| 2000s | 3,881 | |
| 2010s | 1,274 | |
| 2020s | 333 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Colleen was the 94th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Colleen
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nildapeak 1957
- Shellapeak 1959
- Tonipeak 1960
- Jeaninepeak 1960
- Lianepeak 1959
- Martapeak 1957
- Ranaepeak 1962
- Coleenpeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.