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Coral

#1,931 in 2025Girls' name

English word name: coral

Coral has been given to 11,162 babies in the U.S. since 1881. In 2025 it ranked #1,931 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 224 recorded.

Babies named Coral, 2025

1 in 33,200

Coral over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Coral: meaning, origin, and history

English word name: coral

English

What Coral means

Coral takes the English word coral into personal-name use.

Origin, language, and formation

Coral is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,971 girls were recorded with the name Coral between 1881 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 224 in 2004; its best national rank was #488 in 1888.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,617 in 2020 to #1,931 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,224 in 2015 to #1,931 in 2025.

In the United States, 191 boys were recorded with the name Coral between 1916 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1916; its best national rank was #2,291 in 1916.

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 Coral?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,200
100 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,931
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
22,980 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Coral 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 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 22,980 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coral. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Corals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Coral was born before 1993 — so the typical Coral is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
16.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,837
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2000s — 16.7% of all recorded uses (1,832).

Is Coral 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
−33
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−314
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−707
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.6%
Peak was 2004 (224)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#488
1888

Spellings of Coral

Coral is not the most common spelling — Carol is, with 50.2% against Coral's 0.67%.

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 Coral is used

Across 2016–2025, Coral was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,818 girls, against 1 in 10,882 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

155 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,818
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,545
  3. 3California1 in 5,882
  4. 4Washington1 in 7,692
  5. 5Oregon1 in 10,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Arizona1 in 16,667
  8. 8Colorado1 in 16,667

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.

Coral around the world

Where Coral 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
    1996–2025
    #1,719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1981–2018
    #809
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    1993–2007
    #842
    in 2007
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1944–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Coral

People whose public names include Coral, 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.

Coral in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Coral. Linked forms have their own page here.

CoralieCoralíCoralla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Coral by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,931
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 314
Best rank ever
#488
1888
Peak year
2004
224 that year
First recorded
1881
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,971
Count in 2025
100

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,291
1916
Peak year
1916
12 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Coral

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

CoreyCoriCorrieCorieCorinaCoryCorinCorinnaCorrinaCorrineCorineCordeliaCorynCorrinCoralineCoralieCoraleeCorneliaCorinneCoreneCortneyCorahCorraCorynn

Names with a curve like Coral

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

LidiaLinneaLuisaMagdalenaLeanaNellyLupitaLiliaMariannaDaliaRebecaSabina

Sibling names for Coral

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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