Coma
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Coma has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 1920, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% girls, 23% boys all-time.
Babies named Coma, 1929
1 in 438,000
Coma 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Coma over time
In 1929, Coma went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Coma?
Coma had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1929, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1929
- 1 in 438,000
- 5 of 2,192,103 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 223,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1929
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 303,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Coma sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1929 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 303,891 children born in 1929 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Comas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Coma was born before 1923 — so the typical Coma is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Coma 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 1920 (6)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Coma
Coma is not the most common spelling — Emma is, with 28.6% against Coma'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.
Coma by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Coma
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Coma
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.