Cole
For 2025 the count puts Cole at #182 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. Its record runs from 1886 through a 2002 peak, 154,093 children in all.
Cole’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Cole, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Cole since 1886
Cole peaked in 2002 at #69; #182 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Cole is most common
The state that gives Cole most often, per boys born there, is New Hampshire (0.49% in 2025); Rhode Island and Massachusetts are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Cole
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Callie
#175 in 2025
Chase
#192 in 2025
Connor
#166 in 2025 · Celtic
Caden
#201 in 2025
Camden
#205 in 2025
Carlos
#150 in 2025 · Teutonic
Cade
#248 in 2025
Colton
#103 in 2025
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About Cole
How popular is the name Cole?
For 2025 the count puts Cole at #182 nationwide, with the crowd thinning around it. The full curve since 1886 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Cole mean?
There is no citable gloss for Cole in our public-domain source. We show the chart, the related names and the kit, and leave the etymology to a reference you can check.
Which names sit near Cole?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Callie, Chase and Connor, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Cole’s free Name Kit
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