Coleen

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Coleen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 31K
  • USUnited States1 in 2.7Kas Colin

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Coleen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

123,025 named Colin, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
385 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ColeenLatin(measured from records)
คอลินThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Coleen 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.

Where Coleen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—123,025as Colin1 in 2.7K123KColeen385
SE Sweden—4,144as Colin1 in 2.5K4.1K—4
PH Philippines—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 31KlistedColeen82
GB United Kingdom—≈2,800 est.≈1 in 23K4Coleen125
ZA South Africa—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 27K—Coleen43
GY Guyana#2281,296as Colin1 in 5791.3KColeen8
NO Norway—706as Colin1 in 7.7K2.3K—3
JM Jamaica#269≈290 est.≈1 in 9.7K—Coleen9

123,025 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling colin. 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; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Coleen is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Coléen, Colëën

  • Russian surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Колин, Colin, Колін, Колен, Kolin

  • English given name95 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Chinese

    Also written Colin, קולין, Colon, Kalin, Collin

50 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Coleen is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, inflection of colear:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Coleen Gray, b. 1922Coleen Seng, b. 1936Coleen Fitzgibbon, b. 1950Coleen Dufresne, b. 1953Coleen Rowley, b. 1954Coleen Sommer, b. 1960Coleen Nolan, b. 1965Coleen Sexton, b. 1979Coleen Rooney, b. 1986Coleen Garcia, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 39 sources across 27 countries.

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Coleen a male or female name?
Coleen is a male 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.
What are other forms of the name Coleen?
In the etymology graph, Colleen, Colene and Kolleen are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Coleen have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Colin, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Coleen?
In the United States, the national register counted 123,025 people named Colin in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Coleen compared with other names?
In Guyana, Coleen is the 228th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.

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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, “Coleen” — the 228th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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