Coral
Coral is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 105 births. Its best rank was 488th, in 1888.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1050.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2004224 births
- Best rank
- #488in 1888
- Since 1881
- 10,870people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,870 girls have been named Coral in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 224 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1992, and the 2000s alone account for 17%. It has spent 33 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Coral | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 116 | |
| 1890s | 179 | |
| 1900s | 160 | |
| 1910s | 333 | |
| 1920s | 442 | |
| 1930s | 432 | |
| 1940s | 472 | |
| 1950s | 754 | |
| 1960s | 582 | |
| 1970s | 553 | |
| 1980s | 910 | |
| 1990s | 1,778 | |
| 2000s | 1,832 | |
| 2010s | 1,743 | |
| 2020s | 584 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Coral was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2004 were Emily, Emma, Madison, Olivia and Hannah. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Coral
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carolinepeak 2000
- Leanapeak 2010
- Magdalenapeak 2007
- Clarepeak 1998
- Mahaliapeak 2020
- Sabinapeak 2005
- Emiliepeak 2003
- Johannahpeak 2010
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.