Kolleen is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Kolleen has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Kolleen. That means that a girl named Kolleen is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Kolleen.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Kolleen. Girls named Kolleen have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,518 Kolleen ranked higher than ever in 1962. By comparison, there have been 85 years in which the first name Kolleen has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Kolleen only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Kolleen was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Kolleen in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 108 women and girls named Kolleen, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 108 women and girls named Kolleen live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Washington. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Kolleen. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Kolleen lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Kolleen and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Kolleen relative to its female population is Michigan. And even there, only one in 199,087 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Kolleen.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter K is a real popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 7.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, S and M are more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Kolleen has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 7.5% of all girls' names start with a K, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the girls' names that begin with a K, Karen is the most common.
If your name is Kolleen and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Kolleen, you can simply say:
Koala
Orange
Lion
Lion
Elephant
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Kolleen
Kolleen
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
K
O
L
L
E
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
K
O
L
L
E
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Kolleen sounds like this:
