Entry № 2124 · English origin

Cole Cole — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOHL /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Charcoal / dark (Cole Porter; modern unisex)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "charcoal / dark (cole porter; modern unisex)".

Cole is from the Old English col (coal, charcoal) — historically a male surname now used as a modern unisex given name. Old King Cole — English nursery rhyme. King Cole — Cyborg and other fictional figures.

Charcoal / dark.

The name in its native script.

Cole
Transliteration
Cole
Pronunciation
/ koʊl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cole stands.

Cole does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Coles before her.

Real people
Cole Porter
American songwriter.
1891 – 1964
Natalie Cole
American 9x Grammy singer.
1950 – 2015
Nat King Cole
American singer-pianist.
1919 – 1965
In fiction
Old King Cole
English nursery rhyme.

Names connected to Cole.

The number behind Cole.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cole reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.