Name meaning & stats
Cole
Cole means “swarthy, coal-black”. 154,146 US babies since 1940, peak 2002.
What it means
“swarthy, coal-black”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2002
154,146 US babies were named Cole between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Cole (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2002)