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Koen

#623 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Koenraad

Koen has been given to 5,190 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #623 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 468 recorded.

Babies named Koen, 2025

1 in 7,400

Koen over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Koen: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Koenraad

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Koen means

Koen is a short form of Koenraad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Koen is used in English and Dutch.

Koen comes through Dutch Koen.

Koen is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Koenraad.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Koen is pronounced /kuːn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,170 boys were recorded with the name Koen between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 468 in 2023; its best national rank was #606 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,191 in 2020 to #623 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,013 in 2015 to #623 in 2025.

In the United States, 20 girls were recorded with the name Koen between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2011; its best national rank was #16,197 in 2025.

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 Koen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 7,400
448 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,810
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#623
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,130 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Koen 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 5,130 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Koen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Koens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Koen was born before 2016 — so the typical Koen is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (2,008).

Is Koen 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
+58
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+568
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+390
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.23×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.7%
Peak was 2023 (468)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#606
2023

Spellings of Koen

Koen is not the most common spelling — John is, with 68.6% against Koen's 0.07%.

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 Koen is used

Across 2016–2025, Koen was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 1,190 boys, against 1 in 6,596 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 50,000).

284 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 1,190
  2. 2Iowa1 in 2,128
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 2,326
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 2,381
  5. 5Utah1 in 2,857
  6. 6Idaho1 in 3,226
  7. 7Indiana1 in 3,333
  8. 8South Dakota1 in 3,448

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.

Geographically, Koen is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 77% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Koen around the world

Where Koen 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
    2004–2025
    #1,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2024
    #216
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Koen

People whose public names include Koen, 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.

Koen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#623
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 568
Best rank ever
#606
2023
Peak year
2023
468 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,170
Count in 2025
448

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,197
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#16,197
2025
Peak year
2011
5 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Koen

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

CoenRoenKoeKoehnBoenKhoenLoenJoenNoenRhoenZoenKoebeKoedyOenJeroen

Names with a curve like Koen

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

YaelZyonBeckElielZahirJakariBodeJesiahBenicioMassimoJahmirDilan

Sibling names for Koen

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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