Coast
Masculine · Latin roots
Coast is given to both — 765 boys and 87 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Coast comes from the Latin costa, meaning a rib or a side — the same root that gave English the word for the edge of a country where it meets the sea. One syllable, ending in that clean -st stop, it lands the way West and Grant land. Its use as a given name is recent enough that almost everyone answering to it is still small.
How old is the name Coast?
Coast first appears in US birth records in 2014 — 11 years ago. Coast is overwhelmingly a brand-new baby name right now — most Coasts are still in diapers. About 800 people named Coast are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Coast most popular?
Coast peaked in 2025, reaching #874 nationally. Today it ranks #874, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From costa (Latin) to Coast
The story of Coast
The word traveled a long way before anyone used it for a child: Latin costa, a rib or a side, became Old French coste, which covered both the rib and the shoreline, and entered English as coast in the medieval period. The verb followed the noun — to coast first meant to sail along the shore, keeping land in sight, and only later came to mean moving on momentum alone. English has kept the sailing sense alive in the old phrase 'the coast is clear.' As a personal name, Coast belongs to the recent American habit of naming children after landscape and place — Bay, Shore, River, Canyon — and it is telling that its strongest showing is in California, Florida and Texas, all states with a great deal of coastline.
Meaning
the edge of land where it meets the sea
The word traces to Latin costa, 'rib, side, flank' — the side of a landmass — which passed through Old French coste before settling into English as coast.
How the name formed
- costaLatin
- costeOld French
- coastMiddle English
- Coast
Pronouncing Coast
KOHST
One syllable, rhyming with toast and most. Anyone who reads English will say it right the first time.
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2014
- Most boys named
- 2025274 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #874reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +48.1%274 in 2025, from 185
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Coast in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Texas.
Coasts among us
people named Coast are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 6,234 born in 2025 was named Coast
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Coast
- #874
- Coast on the 2025 chart
- #588
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Coast went to 274 boys in 2025, but Koast is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 369, which makes it the 588th most-given boys’ name of the year — 286 places above the chart.
- Coast274
- Koast95
About 1 boy in 4,629 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 6,234 for Coast itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Brandt test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Coast's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Brandt climbed just as high around 1984, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Brandt's path sketches the road Coast is walking now.
Coast is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Coast is headed
Coast is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 151% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Coast beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Coast in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Spelled exactly like a word every English reader already knows, so it survives phone calls, forms and roll calls without correction.
- One syllable with a hard ending — it sits easily in front of longer, more traditional surnames.
- No competing pronunciations anywhere in the English-speaking world.
- Sits naturally beside the landscape names now in wide use, without duplicating any of them.
- It is a common noun first and a name second. Expect a beat of hesitation the first time someone hears it, and a lifetime of small remarks about beaches.
- 'Coasting' also means going along without effort — a shade of meaning that turns up on school reports and in idiom. Worth knowing about in advance rather than being surprised by it.
- There are no established short forms, so the name will be used whole. Some families reach for a middle name that offers a more conventional fallback.
- The name is new enough that a child will meet very few adults who share it, and will often be the one explaining it. Plenty of families find that a fair trade for a name nobody else in the class has.
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Masculine · Latin roots · #874 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Coasts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Coast are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Coast?
- Coast is the most-used spelling in US records — 274 of the 369 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Koast.
- How popular is the name Coast in 2025?
- Coast ranks #874 among US boy names in 2025, with 274 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Coast?
- About 1 in every 6,234 US boys born in 2025 was named Coast — 274 in all.
- Will my child share the name Coast with classmates?
- Coast will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Coast
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