Koast
#1,718 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Koast has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 2019. In 2025 it ranked #1,718 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 95 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Koast, 2025
1 in 34,900
Koast 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Koast over time
In 2025, Koast went to 10% girls and 90% 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 Koast?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 34,900
- 95 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 18,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,718
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,190 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Koast sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 24,190 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Koast. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Koasts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Koast was born before 2025 — so the typical Koast is around 0 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 96.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 156
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 96.8% of all recorded uses (151).
Is Koast 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
- +2,552
- Places climbed
- 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (95)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 154.1% average annual change
Spellings of Koast
Koast is not the most common spelling — Kash is, with 47.7% against Koast's 0.43%.
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 Koast is used
Across 1910–2025, Koast was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 802,030 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
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. Koast has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Koast by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Koast
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Koast
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.