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Kolleen

Girls' name

Variant of Colleen

Kolleen has been given to 1,016 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1962, with 48 recorded.

Babies named Kolleen, 2011

1 in 732,000

Kolleen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kolleen: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Colleen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kolleen means

Kolleen is a variant of Colleen.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Kolleen is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /kɑ.ˈlin/ and /kɒ.ˈliːn/ for Kolleen.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Kolleen → Colleen. The family’s meaning is “girl”, recorded in English with the source elements cailín.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Colleen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,016 girls were recorded with the name Kolleen between 1946 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 48 in 1962; its best national rank was #1,639 in 1962.

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 Kolleen?

Kolleen had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kolleen 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 2011 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolleen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kolleens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kolleen was born before 1968 — so the typical Kolleen is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
985
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Choose a decade

1960s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (326).

Is Kolleen 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1962 (48)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,639
1962

Spellings of Kolleen

Kolleen is not the most common spelling — Colleen is, with 78.9% against Kolleen's 0.49%.

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 Kolleen is used

Across 1910–2025, Kolleen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 447,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Washington1 in —
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in —

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. Kolleen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kolleen around the world

Where Kolleen 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.

  • France
    2009–2009
    #6,461
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Kolleen by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,639
1962
Peak year
1962
48 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
1,016
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Kolleen

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

KoleenKollinsKollynsKoletteKolbieJaileenMayleenKaileenRayleenJazleenShireenHarleenKolbiSabreenGurleenAshleenKolbyRaeleenMehreenYazmeenJasleenDayleenSaleenTaleen

Sibling names for Kolleen

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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