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Colleen
Pronounced /kəˈliːn/
Rank in 2024
#2,805
Born in 2024
60
Peak year
1964 · #94
Origin
English
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 60 girls were named Colleen, about 1 in every 26,886.
- It peaked in 1964 with 4,544 babies, ranked #94.
- It first shows up in the records in 1901.
- 162,699 girls have been named Colleen since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Colleen per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.7Silent1928–45
- 1.8Boomers1946–64
- 1.7Gen X1965–80
- 1.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 4,399 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Silent: 13,891 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Boomers: 64,469 babies, 1.80 per 1,000. Gen X: 44,178 babies, 1.73 per 1,000. Millennials: 27,738 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,921 babies, 0.24 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,103 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
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).
- A female given name from English or Irish.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- /kəˈliːn/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Colleen, CC BY-SA 4.0.