Coleridge \c(o)-le-ridge, coler(id)-ge\ as a boy's name is of Old English origin. Place name: possibly "Cole's ridge", or "dark ridge". English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was author of "The Ancient Mariner", and the famously unfinished "Kubla Khan", written under the influence of opium.

Coleridge has 3 variant forms: Colerige, Colridge and Colrige.