Charcoal burner or dove
An English occupational surname for a burner of charcoal or a servant of a man named Cole. It also has Irish roots as an anglicized form of Colmán, derived from 'colum', meaning dove, often associated with early Irish saints.
Less common today
Coleman isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #497 in 1997.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
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