Colleén
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Colleén is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 137,514 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. 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 640(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 1.4K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #772 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 558 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 640 (inferred from the name graph)
137,514 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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).
Cited for this meaning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #308 | 137,514 | 1 in 2.4K | 137K | Colleen | 558 |
| GB United Kingdom | #384 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 4 | Colleen | 227 |
| CA Canada | #249 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Colleen | 281 |
| ZA South Africa | #434 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Colleen | 107 |
| AU Australia | #317 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 74 | Colleen | 214 |
| NZ New Zealand | #236 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 12 | Colleen | 117 |
| IE Ireland | #197 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Colleen | 78 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #4 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 640 | — | Colleen | 3 |
137,514 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Colleén?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 138 thousand people named Colleén, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled colleen. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 the United States, Colleén is the 308th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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” — ranked 412th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.