Coast

What Coast means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Coast yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #874 vs #2,014 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Coast?

US: Rising: up from #8744 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 274 boys got the name (#874 that year). First in the US records in 2014.

How common

• About 1 in 6,234 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in UT (0.46 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.44 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.43 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Coast is #874 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 89.8% of US babies named Coast were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Koast95 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Coast

Boys

• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Lorenzo#117Editor’s note Up from #216 in 2015 to #117 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 560 US boys in the 2025 records
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Harvey#251“iron + blazing”^*

For a sister

• Wrenley#158Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #158 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Kehlani#148Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #148 vs #894 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Coast’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.