Meaning not yet researched.
Colson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,099 in 2025. Its best rank was #311 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Colson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#311 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Colson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,099 boys in 2025. Peak: #311 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,099 (2025).
In 2025, 1,099 US boys were named Colson, making it the 311th most common boys’ name of the year, up 44 places from #355 in 2024. That is 150 more than the 949 boys named Colson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #311, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,099. For comparison, it was #1,111 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Colson in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1924 with 5 babies. In all, 9,729 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,984 babies named Colson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,561 US boys were named Colson; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,099. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,554 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Colson ranked highest in Wyoming in 2025, at #100 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kolson (2,084 babies since 1880), Colsen (1,710 babies since 1880) and Kolsen (813 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Coulson, Kolsyn and Colsyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Coulson (478), Kolsyn (303), Colsyn (198), Kohlson (133), Coalson (34), Koulson (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Colson in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 10 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 5 | #100 | — |
| West Virginia | 18 | #109 | — |
| Kentucky | 41 | #138 | #545 |
| Missouri | 49 | #142 | #675 |
| Oklahoma | 31 | #154 | — |
| Ohio | 83 | #163 | #695 |
| Indiana | 51 | #164 | #634 |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | #173 | #755 |
| Maine | 7 | #182 | — |
| Montana | 7 | #182 | — |
| South Carolina | 29 | #196 | — |
| Mississippi | 15 | #203 | — |
| North Carolina | 60 | #208 | #720 |
| Tennessee | 42 | #211 | — |
| Alabama | 26 | #219 | — |
| Iowa | 18 | #223 | — |
| Michigan | 44 | #228 | #1,004 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #228 | — |
| Idaho | 11 | #233 | — |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #247 | — |
| Illinois | 41 | #271 | #1,212 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #271 | — |
| Arkansas | 13 | #275 | — |
| Kansas | 13 | #278 | — |
| Georgia | 44 | #281 | #1,022 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #330 | — |
| Connecticut | 9 | #334 | — |
| Florida | 57 | #339 | #1,112 |
| Utah | 12 | #387 | — |
| Colorado | 15 | #405 | — |
| Louisiana | 11 | #429 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #446 | — |
| Washington | 16 | #452 | — |
| New York | 36 | #464 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #480 | — |
| Virginia | 15 | #502 | #1,018 |
| Texas | 58 | #550 | #1,379 |
| Maryland | 8 | #585 | #721 |
| Arizona | 11 | #599 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #720 | — |
| California | 24 | #938 | #2,085 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,099 | #311 |
| 2024 | — | — | 949 | #355 |
| 2023 | — | — | 950 | #345 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,059 | #317 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,025 | #323 |
| 2020 | — | — | 902 | #351 |
| 2019 | — | — | 657 | #455 |
| 2018 | — | — | 409 | #639 |
| 2017 | — | — | 323 | #738 |
| 2016 | — | — | 188 | #1,050 |
| 2015 | — | — | 173 | #1,111 |
| 2014 | — | — | 145 | #1,246 |
| 2013 | — | — | 153 | #1,175 |
| 2012 | — | — | 145 | #1,222 |
| 2011 | — | — | 178 | #1,057 |
| 2010 | — | — | 151 | #1,191 |
| 2009 | — | — | 122 | #1,392 |
| 2008 | — | — | 131 | #1,326 |
| 2007 | — | — | 132 | #1,306 |
| 2006 | — | — | 95 | #1,553 |
| 2005 | — | — | 88 | #1,576 |
| 2004 | — | — | 97 | #1,443 |
| 2003 | — | — | 76 | #1,648 |
| 2002 | — | — | 61 | #1,854 |
| 2001 | — | — | 96 | #1,345 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,946 |
| 1999 | — | — | 47 | #2,033 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,164 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,356 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,765 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,566 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,487 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,263 |
| 1992 | — | — | 13 | #4,363 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,159 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,052 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,320 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #6,569 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,242 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,716 |
| 1935 | — | — | 5 | #3,757 |
| 1924 | — | — | 5 | #4,479 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).