Collen
Recorded 1918–2023 · United States
Collen was most popular in 1996, when 37 American babies were given the name — ranking #5,212 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,173 people named Collen.
Collen over time
How old is the name Collen?
Collen first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1918, which makes it about 107 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 77 of the 108 years since.
How many people are named Collen?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,173 American births named Collen between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,091 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Collen in 2025?
Collen was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Collen getting more or less popular?
Collen is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 14 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Collen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Collen is a unisex name — 43.6% of the 1,173 Americans given it were girls and 56.4% were boys. It changed hands: since 1993 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Collen?
Roughly 1,091 Americans named Collen are alive today — 93% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 32 years old, and half are between 21 and 46.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org