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Coen

Coen is a boy's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 799th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,376th. About 4,500 Coens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Coen boys named Coen

By the numbers

Total US births
4,523
Estimated living today
4,500
Median age today
10
Peak year
2016
Best rank
799th
Rank in 2025
1,376th
First recorded
1991
Girls / boys
17 / 4,506

How old the living Coens are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 4,523 babies given the name since 1991, about 4,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

Variant of Cohen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Coens

People named Coen with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Coen is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Coen is most concentrated in Utah (4.9×), Oregon (3.9×), Washington (3.5×), Colorado (2.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2016

The most popular boys’ names the year Coen peaked:

All the names of 2016

Coen elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Coen 735 468th
Scotland boys Coen 119 290th
Northern Ireland boys Coen 95 186th
Ireland boys Coen 26 547th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Coen among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
the Netherlands boys Coen 4,032 4,912
the Netherlands girls Coen 18

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.