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Colsen

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Colsen is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Col”. In 2025 it ranked 566th for boys in the US (523 babies).

What does Colsen mean?

English: spelling of Colson, an English surname

“son of Col”

A spelling of Colson, an English surname meaning 'son of Col', a medieval pet form of Nicholas.

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Is Colsen a girl's or a boy's name?

Colsen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 523 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Colsen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#566among boys
Babies in 2025
523about 1 in 3,300 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 574% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 523 boys in the US were named Colsen, making it the 566th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,911th. It first appears in the records in 2001.

2025 had the most boys named Colsen of any year since it first appeared, in 2001.

Half of all the boys named Colsen in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,474 boys in the US were given Colsen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #164, up from #566 for this spelling alone.

2001Busiest: 523 in 20252025
Colsen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
2025523#566
2024442#631
202387#1,832
202287#1,839
202164#2,192
202077#1,911
201952#2,524
201827#3,887
201733#3,376
201624#4,198
201535#3,230
201420#4,698
201328#3,659
201230#3,527
201122#4,354
201031#3,452
200920#4,746
200821#4,537
200725#4,009
200612#6,455
200513#5,869
200412#6,132
20038#7,824
200210#6,515
20017#8,332

Nicknames for Colsen

Names like Colsen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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