colleen means A female given name from English or Irish. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 80 out of 100.
colleen is pronounced /kəˈliːn/.
Etymology
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).
name
- A female given name from English or Irish.“Her name is spelled Coleen making her "Co" with a hard O and not Colleen by any stretch - I'm suspicious on her authority on the subject.”
noun
- A girl.
- A young single woman.“Down a boreen green came a sweet colleen \ And she smiled as she passed me by.”