Coel
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Coel has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1994. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1994, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Coel, 2004
1 in 637,000
Coel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Coel?
Coel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 637,000
- 6 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 331,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 441,326 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Coel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 441,326 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Coels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Coel was born before 1999 — so the typical Coel is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Coel 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1994 (6)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Coel
Coel is not the most common spelling — Carl is, with 19.8% against Coel's <0.01%.
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.
Coel around the world
Where Coel 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 & Wales1997–2014#4,632in 2014
- South Australia1980–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Coel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Coel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Coel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.