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Colleen.

A female given name from English or Irish.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/kəˈliːn/UK/kɒˈliːn/UK/kəˈlin/US/kɔˈlin/US
  1. A female given name from English or Irish.

Where this word comes from

From the word colleen, from Irish cailín (“girl”), not used as a name in Ireland. Colleen can also be interpreted as a variant of Coleen, which was a product of marketing by the Hollywood film industry (to promote a new starlet in the 1920s).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.