Colman
The boy's name Colman has been in the national records since 1909, with 1,045 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 8,910th. About 640 Colmans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Colman
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,045
- Estimated living today
- 640
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2002
- Best rank
- 3,259th
- Rank in 2025
- 8,910th
- First recorded
- 1909
How old the living Colmans are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,045 babies given the name since 1909, about 640 are alive — 61 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 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 Irish
From the Irish saints' name Colmán, diminutive of Colm, from Latin columba (“dove”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Colmans
- Colman Domingo (born 1969)American actor
- Colmán of Lindisfarne (605–676)Bishop of Lindisfarne; Saint
People named Colman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Colman is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2002
The most popular boys’ names the year Colman peaked:
Colman elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Colman | 387 | 140th |
| France boys | Colman | 5 | 4,066th |
| England and Wales boys | Colman | 3 | 4,789th |
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.
Related names
Colman against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.