Coast
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Coast is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “seashore”. In 2025 it ranked 2,087th for boys in the UK (12 babies) and 874th for boys in the US (274 babies).
What does Coast mean?
English: English word name
“seashore”
The English word comes, via French, from Latin costa, 'rib, side'.
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Is Coast a girl's or a boy's name?
Coast is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the UK and 31 girls and 274 boys in the US.
How popular is Coast in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,087among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 25,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 500% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 12 boys in the UK were named Coast, making it the 2,087th most popular name for boys.
2025 had the most boys named Coast of any year since it first appeared, in 2011.
Among boys in 2025, it was 2,011th in England and Wales.
Coast in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #2,087 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 1 | #6,556 |
| 2022 | 5 | #3,639 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #6,218 |
How popular is Coast in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #874among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 274about 1 in 6,200 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 992% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 274 boys in the US were named Coast, making it the 874th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,137th. It first appears in the records in 2014. 31 girls were also named Coast in 2025 (4,459th for girls).
It has been given to more boys each year for the last 7 years. 2025 had the most boys named Coast of any year since it first appeared, in 2014.
Half of all the boys named Coast in the US since 1880 were born between 2022 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 369 boys in the US were given Coast or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #679, up from #874 for this spelling alone.
- Coast 274
- Koast 95
Coast in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 274 | #874 |
| 2024 | 185 | #1,140 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,591 |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,216 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,651 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,137 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,681 |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,636 |
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