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Cole
Pronounced /koʊl/
Rank in 2024
#163
Born in 2024
2,219
Peak year
2002 · #69
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 2,219 boys were named Cole, about 1 in every 773.
- It peaked in 2002 with 6,038 babies, ranked #69.
- It first shows up in the records in 1886.
- 152,069 boys have been named Cole since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Cole per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 2.7Gen Z1997–12
- 1.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 328 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Silent: 257 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,064 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,038 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,692 babies, 0.88 per 1,000. Gen Z: 84,978 babies, 2.71 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 36,695 babies, 1.69 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The surname is variously from: A nickname from Old English col (“coal, coal-black”), A patronymic from Nicholas (see also Coles, Colson, Colle). A variation of Cowell (which itself has several origins). As an Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McCool. As a German surname, Americanized from Kohl. As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Kool. As a French surname, Americanized/calqued from Charbonneau, influenced by the first sense.
- (countable) A male given name.
- A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /koʊl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Cole, CC BY-SA 4.0.