Koleman
#8,618 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Koleman has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #8,618 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Koleman, 2025
1 in 368,000
Koleman 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Koleman?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,618
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Koleman 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Koleman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kolemans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Koleman was born before 2009 — so the typical Koleman is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 249
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (103).
Is Koleman 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
- +4,759
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,755
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,550
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.80×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 56.3%
- Peak was 1998 (16)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.6% average annual change
Spellings of Koleman
Koleman is not the most common spelling — Coleman is, with 78.4% against Koleman's 1.1%.
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.
Koleman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Koleman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Koleman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.