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How popular is “Coleman” in the USA?

Number of people named “Coleman” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Coleman” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Coleman” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Coleman” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Coleman” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Coleman” by birth year

This chart shows how “Coleman” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 12 0.000059558 12 -100%
1881 16 0.000083036 16 -100%
1882 18 0.000081252 18 -100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 -100%
1884 14 0.000057504 14 -100%
1885 17 0.000070582 17 -100%
1886 11 0.000043084 11 -100%
1887 18 0.000072759 18 -100%
1888 17 0.000056766 17 -100%
1889 12 0.00004153 12 -100%
1890 15 0.000049768 15 -100%
1891 16 0.000055813 16 -100%
1892 21 0.000062804 21 -100%
1893 20 0.000061496 20 -100%
1894 14 0.000041336 14 -100%
1895 12 0.000034186 12 -100%
1896 18 0.000050352 18 -100%
1897 25 0.000072055 25 -100%
1898 19 0.000049809 19 -100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 -100%
1900 26 0.000057745 26 -100%
1901 19 0.000054943 19 -100%
1902 17 0.000043958 17 -100%
1903 28 0.000073452 28 -100%
1904 28 0.000069395 28 -100%
1905 21 0.000049537 21 -100%
1906 15 0.00003501 15 -100%
1907 24 0.00005157 24 -100%
1908 21 0.000042976 21 -100%
1909 38 0.000074331 38 -100%
1910 40 0.000067715 40 -100%
1911 36 0.000055877 36 -100%
1912 69 0.000069834 69 -100%
1913 75 0.000065957 75 -100%
1914 102 0.000072016 102 -100%
1915 116 0.000063304 116 -100%
1916 120 0.000062034 120 -100%
1917 110 0.000054815 110 -100%
1918 133 0.000061259 133 -100%
1919 130 0.000061604 130 -100%
1920 112 0.0000495 112 -100%
1921 146 0.00006254 146 -100%
1922 112 0.000048926 112 -100%
1923 122 0.000052986 122 -100%
1924 107 0.000044928 107 -100%
1925 126 0.000054001 126 -100%
1926 130 0.000056623 130 -100%
1927 115 0.000049583 115 -100%
1928 108 0.000047768 108 -100%
1929 118 0.000053828 118 -100%
1930 108 0.000048577 108 -100%
1931 87 0.000041342 87 -100%
1932 92 0.000043575 92 -100%
1933 77 0.000038511 77 -100%
1934 116 0.000055855 116 -100%
1935 73 0.00003493 73 -100%
1936 93 0.000044764 93 -100%
1937 85 0.000039894 5 80 -88%
1938 90 0.000040677 90 -100%
1939 81 0.000036761 81 -100%
1940 88 0.000038216 88 -100%
1941 86 0.000035298 86 -100%
1942 68 0.000024892 68 -100%
1943 95 0.000033657 95 -100%
1944 85 0.000031598 85 -100%
1945 72 0.00002714 72 -100%
1946 94 0.000029418 94 -100%
1947 114 0.000031646 114 -100%
1948 102 0.000029544 102 -100%
1949 97 0.000027835 97 -100%
1950 89 0.000025404 89 -100%
1951 93 0.000025246 93 -100%
1952 82 0.00002159 82 -100%
1953 80 0.00002076 80 -100%
1954 87 0.000021855 87 -100%
1955 70 0.000017434 70 -100%
1956 98 0.000023769 98 -100%
1957 78 0.000018562 78 -100%
1958 75 0.000018143 75 -100%
1959 65 0.000015633 65 -100%
1960 64 0.000015408 64 -100%
1961 72 0.000017382 72 -100%
1962 75 0.000018586 75 -100%
1963 52 0.000013137 52 -100%
1964 53 0.000013633 53 -100%
1965 54 0.000014895 54 -100%
1966 45 0.000012947 45 -100%
1967 45 0.000013255 45 -100%
1968 67 0.000019832 67 -100%
1969 59 0.000016977 59 -100%
1970 52 0.000014418 52 -100%
1971 44 0.000012819 44 -100%
1972 47 0.000014954 47 -100%
1973 47 0.000015579 47 -100%
1974 59 0.000019408 59 -100%
1975 57 0.000018878 57 -100%
1976 48 0.000015819 48 -100%
1977 43 0.000013537 43 -100%
1978 62 0.000019535 62 -100%
1979 75 0.000022543 75 -100%
1980 76 0.000022064 76 -100%
1981 91 0.000026305 91 -100%
1982 123 0.000035063 123 -100%
1983 123 0.000035515 123 -100%
1984 120 0.000034396 120 -100%
1985 140 0.000039225 140 -100%
1986 150 0.000042169 150 -100%
1987 172 0.000047703 172 -100%
1988 137 0.000037077 137 -100%
1989 152 0.000039538 7 145 -91%
1990 166 0.000041999 166 -100%
1991 195 0.000050061 195 -100%
1992 254 0.000066124 254 -100%
1993 284 0.000075326 284 -100%
1994 303 0.000081503 303 -100%
1995 340 0.000092842 340 -100%
1996 344 0.000094319 344 -100%
1997 421 0.000116114 421 -100%
1998 391 0.000106302 391 -100%
1999 359 0.000097188 5 354 -97%
2000 388 0.000102648 388 -100%
2001 369 0.000098574 369 -100%
2002 399 0.000106733 399 -100%
2003 368 0.000096783 368 -100%
2004 331 0.000086628 331 -100%
2005 363 0.000094412 363 -100%
2006 347 0.000087711 347 -100%
2007 350 0.000087551 350 -100%
2008 307 0.000078104 307 -100%
2009 276 0.000072248 276 -100%
2010 273 0.000073869 273 -100%
2011 228 0.000062333 7 221 -94%
2012 256 0.000069996 256 -100%
2013 252 0.000069123 252 -100%
2014 228 0.000061516 5 223 -96%
2015 251 0.000067821 251 -100%
2016 212 0.000057786 212 -100%
2017 246 0.000068788 246 -100%
2018 208 0.00005916 208 -100%
2019 182 0.000052435 182 -100%
2020 203 0.000060768 203 -100%
2021 175 0.000051654 175 -100%
2022 178 0.000052614 178 -100%
2023 176 0.000053153 176 -100%
2024 153 0.000045967 153 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Coleman:

  1. Coleen
  2. Coleena
  3. Coleene
  4. Coleeta
  5. Coleigh
  6. Coleman (this page)
  7. Colemon
  8. Colen
  9. Colena
  10. Colene
  11. Coleon