Coral Girl
How popular is Coral?
#1,927 girl name in 2025
100 baby girls were named Coral in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
Coral popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,927 for girls (▼ 32 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 100 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-50% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,223 in 2015, #1,616 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2004 (224 girls) |
| Highest rank | #486 in 1888 |
| First recorded | 1881 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Coral counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Coral family of names ranked #1,490 for girls in 2025 (#1,382 the year before), with 107 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Coral | 100 | 93% |
| Koral | 7 | 7% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Coral is most popular
Babies named Coral per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (75 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (119 girls)
- Oregon: 0.1 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (52 girls)
- Colorado: 0.1 per 1,000 (7 girls)
Coral by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 116 | #486 |
| 1890s | 179 | #599 |
| 1900s | 160 | #734 |
| 1910s | 333 | #898 |
| 1920s | 442 | #997 |
| 1930s | 432 | #901 |
| 1940s | 472 | #1,031 |
| 1950s | 754 | #1,037 |
| 1960s | 581 | #1,096 |
| 1970s | 553 | #1,410 |
| 1980s | 910 | #1,269 |
| 1990s | 1,778 | #979 |
| 2000s | 1,832 | #1,037 |
| 2010s | 1,744 | #1,179 |
| 2020s | 685 | #1,612 |
Girl names about as popular as Coral
Questions
- Is Coral a boy or girl name?
- Coral is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Coral were girls.
- How popular is the name Coral?
- 100 baby girls were named Coral in the US in 2025, making it the 1927th most popular girl name.
- When was Coral most popular?
- Coral peaked in 2004, when 224 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #486 in 1888.
- How many people are named Coral?
- 11,162 babies have been named Coral in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,023 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Coral most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Coral was most common in Florida, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.