Koen

What Koen means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #622 vs #1,705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Koen?

US: Rising: up from #1012 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #1786 in 2015, #1705 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 468 boys got the name (#605 that year). First in the US records in 1996.

How common

• About 1 in 3,813 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,129 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,910 baby boys in Scotland 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 HI (2.74 per 1,000 boys), SD (1.56 per 1,000 boys), MT (1.33 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Koen is #622 in the US and #1705 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 98.9% of US babies named Koen were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Coen134 US · 12 E&W
• Kain94 US · 3 E&W
• Kaan35 US · 23 E&W
• Ken36 US · 6 E&W
• Koehn24 US
• Kayn20 US
• Koan5 US · 6 E&W
• Coehn6 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 Koen

Boys

• Owen#31Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #31 vs #170 in 2025
• Amari#185“Does the given name have different origins?”^*
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Cooper#27Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #77 in 2015, #27 in 2025
• Maddox#209Editor’s note Down from #148 in 2015 to #209 in 2025 in the US
• Xander#259Diminutive of Alexander, meaning “to defend + man”^*

For a sister

• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Lily#18Diminutive of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Ailani#168Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,199 in 2015, #168 in 2025
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Madelyn#70Editor’s note Down from #59 in 2015 to #70 in 2025 in the US

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 Koen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.