as a First Name
Mainly North American and Australian: from the Anglo-Irish vocabulary word colleen ‘girl, wench’ (Gaelic cailín). It became established as a name in the interwar years in North America, and was associated with the star of the silent screen Colleen Moore (1901–88), whose original name was Kathleen Morrison. It is not used as a given name in Ireland. It is sometimes taken as a feminine form of Colin or a variant of Colette.
| 305th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 171,823
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Minnesota
- has the most people named Colleen per capita
- 1964
- marked the height of its popularity
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