Coley
Coley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. Its best rank was 624th, in 1893.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199337 births
- Best rank
- #624in 1893
- Since 1881
- 2,361people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,021 boys have been named Coley in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: 7 births in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1970s alone account for 12%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 340 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Coley | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 17 | |
| 1890s | 38 | |
| 1900s | 42 | |
| 1910s | 166 | |
| 1920s | 154 | |
| 1930s | 158 | |
| 1940s | 176 | |
| 1950s | 159 | |
| 1960s | 168 | |
| 1970s | 233 | |
| 1980s | 182 | |
| 1990s | 217 | |
| 2000s | 174 | |
| 2010s | 101 | |
| 2020s | 36 |
In 1993, its biggest year
Coley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Coley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Ulyssespeak 1999
- Josephpeak 1956
- Julespeak 1928
- Williamspeak 1950
- Ruelpeak 1915
- Raleighpeak 1921
- Nelsonpeak 1959
- Buckpeak 1919
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.