Colleén
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Colleén is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 4th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 648(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.5K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #772 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 648 (inferred from the name graph)
≈660,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
Highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Colleen in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Colleén counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Colleen | 34 |
| US United States | #308 | 137,514 | 1 in 2.4K | 137K | Colleen | 558 |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #511 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Colleen | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | #384 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 4 | Colleen | 227 |
| CA Canada | #249 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 1 | Colleen | 281 |
| IE Ireland | #197 | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Colleen | 78 |
| NZ New Zealand | #236 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 12 | Colleen | 117 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #4 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 648 | — | Colleen | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Colleén mean, and where does it come from?
- From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- Is Colleén a male or female name?
- Colleén is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Colleén have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 664 thousand people named Colleén in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colleen.
- How common is the name Colleén?
- In the United States, the national register counted 137,514 people named Colleén in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Colleén compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Colleén is the 4th most common given name of 3,327 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Colleén?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/colle%C3%A9nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Colleén” — the 4th most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.