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Coline

Girls' name

Diminutive of Nicole

Coline has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1914. 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 1914, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Coline, 1958

1 in 827,000

Coline over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coline: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Nicole

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Coline means

Coline is a diminutive of Nicole.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Coline is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ko.lin/ for Coline.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Coline → Nicole → Nicolas → Nicholas. The family’s meaning is “victory + people”, recorded in English with the source elements νίκη and λαός.

Origin, language, and formation

Coline is used in French and Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Nicole, Nicoline and Nicolas.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Coline is pronounced /kɔ.lin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 79 girls were recorded with the name Coline between 1914 and 1958. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1914; its best national rank was #2,688 in 1914.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Coline?

Coline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1958
1 in 827,000
5 of 4,133,550 births
Among girls only
1 in 402,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1958
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
573,033 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coline sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Colines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coline was born before 1925 — so the typical Coline is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
13
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1910s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (28).

Is Coline 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1914 (8)
Years since peak
111
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,688
1914

Spellings of Coline

Coline is not the most common spelling — Caroline is, with 41.1% against Coline'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.

Coline around the world

Where Coline 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.

  • France
    1948–2025
    #256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1953–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Coline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,688
1914
Peak year
1914
8 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
1958
All-time count
79
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Coline

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

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Sibling names for Coline

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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