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Coleman

Pronounced /ˈkoʊlmən/

Rank in 2024
#1,282
Born in 2024
153
Peak year
1997 · #496
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 153 boys were named Coleman, about 1 in every 11,211.
  • It peaked in 1997 with 421 babies, ranked #496.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 17,451 boys have been named Coleman since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Coleman per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,112 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Silent: 1,617 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,540 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 880 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,087 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,414 babies, 0.17 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,459 babies, 0.11 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

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  • A surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Colman.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈkoʊlmən/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Coleman, CC BY-SA 4.0.