Coast
#875 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Coast has been given to 852 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #875 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 274 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Coast, 2025
1 in 12,100
Coast over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Coast over time
In 2025, Coast went to 10% girls and 90% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Coast?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 12,100
- 274 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 6,230
- 0.02% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #875
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 8,388 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Coast sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 8,388 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coast. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Coasts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Coast was born before 2024 — so the typical Coast is around 1 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 92.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 765
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 92.2% of all recorded uses (705).
Is Coast rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +265
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,287
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +8,025
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 34.25×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (274)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 69.9% average annual change
Spellings of Coast
Coast is not the most common spelling — Chase is, with 71.0% against Coast's 0.30%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Coast is used — boys
Across 2016–2025, Coast was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 25,253 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Utah1 in 10,000
- 2Florida1 in 12,500
- 3Arizona1 in 14,286
- 4Tennessee1 in 16,667
- 5Maryland1 in 20,000
- 6Washington1 in 20,000
- 7California1 in 25,000
- 8Georgia1 in 25,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Where Coast is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Coast was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,779,197 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Coast has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Coast around the world
Where Coast ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2014–2025#2,014in 2025
- Canada2022–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Coast by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Coast
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Coast
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.