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Coen

#1,376 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Coenraad

Coen has been given to 4,523 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,376 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 291 recorded.

Babies named Coen, 2025

1 in 24,700

Coen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coen: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Coenraad

surname transfer and Dutch

What Coen means

Coen is a short form of Coenraad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Coen → Coenraad → Koenraad. The family’s meaning is “courageous + counsel”, recorded in Dutch with the source elements koen and raad.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* (Jewish): Variant of Cohen. * (given name): As a modern given name, also a variant of Koen.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Coen (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Coen is used in English and Dutch. Its origins include surname transfer and Dutch.

Coen is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Coenraad, Cohen and Koen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Coen is pronounced /kun/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,506 boys were recorded with the name Coen between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 291 in 2016; its best national rank was #800 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #944 in 2020 to #1,376 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #898 in 2015 to #1,376 in 2025.

In the United States, 17 girls were recorded with the name Coen between 2021 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2022; its best national rank was #13,809 in 2023.

How common is Coen?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,700
134 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 12,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,376
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,150 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coen sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,150 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Coens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coen was born before 2015 — so the typical Coen is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
48.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,506
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (2,194).

Is Coen 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
−253
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−478
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.0%
Peak was 2016 (291)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#800
2016

Spellings of Coen

Coen is not the most common spelling — John is, with 62.3% against Coen's 0.05%.

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 Coen is used

Across 2016–2025, Coen was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 3,030 boys, against 1 in 8,055 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

233 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 3,030
  2. 2Iowa1 in 3,125
  3. 3Utah1 in 3,333
  4. 4Washington1 in 3,846
  5. 5Ohio1 in 4,167
  6. 6Minnesota1 in 4,348
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 4,348
  8. 8Arkansas1 in 4,762

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.

Coen around the world

Where Coen 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 & Wales
    1998–2025
    #2,014
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2009–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2025
    #270
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #808
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Coen

People whose public names include Coen, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Coen by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,376
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 432
Best rank ever
#800
2016
Peak year
2016
291 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,506
Count in 2025
134

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,809
2023
Peak year
2022
6 that year
First recorded
2021
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Coen

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

KoenRoenCoeBoenKhoenCoehnCoelLoenJoenNoenRhoenZoenCoeyCoedyOenJeroen

Names with a curve like Coen

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Coen, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KalelJuelzMadduxDamariAchillesYadielKooperThatcherKamrynIshaanLyricRayyan

Sibling names for Coen

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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