Coal
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- KOHL
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Coal is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “coal”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Coal mean?
English: English word; also a respelling of Cole
“coal”
A modern word name that sounds the same as Cole.
Is Coal a girl's or a boy's name?
Coal is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Coal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Coal, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2016, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more boys named Coal than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Coal in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,217 boys in the US were given Coal or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #183, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
Coal in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,334 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,043 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,692 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 9 | #7,992 |
| 2005 | 12 | #6,220 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,348 |
| 2003 | 6 | #9,574 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,048 |
| 2001 | 5 | #10,548 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #7,764 |
Names like Coal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Cannon, Finn, Ridge, Deacon, Finnegan, Kayden, Brayden, Case, Declan, Aiden, Keegan, Ronan
Other spellings of Coal
Names related to Coal
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Coal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/coal, updated 20 October 2026.