Meaning not yet researched.
Colt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,188 in 2025. Its best rank was #210 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #210 in 2019; #285 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Colt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#285 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #210.
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Colt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,188 boys in 2025. Peak: #210 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 1,833 (2019).
In 2025, 1,188 US boys were named Colt, making it the 285th most common boys’ name of the year, down 8 places from #277 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 1,227 boys named Colt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #210, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,833. For comparison, it was #338 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Colt in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1957 with 7 babies. In all, 27,880 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,656 babies named Colt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,430 US boys were named Colt; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 1,833. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,438 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Colt ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #59 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kolt (3,074 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Colt in the open dataset we use.
Colt is listed as a nickname for Colton.
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 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 28 | #59 | #118 |
| Iowa | 30 | #137 | #202 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #142 | #206 |
| North Dakota | 8 | #157 | — |
| Utah | 34 | #159 | #308 |
| Oklahoma | 30 | #164 | #175 |
| Oregon | 24 | #173 | #242 |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #189 | — |
| Nebraska | 13 | #198 | #196 |
| Tennessee | 46 | #201 | #260 |
| Idaho | 13 | #202 | #193 |
| Wisconsin | 30 | #205 | #401 |
| Maine | 6 | #211 | — |
| Ohio | 61 | #212 | #228 |
| Kentucky | 26 | #214 | #250 |
| Indiana | 38 | #220 | #281 |
| Pennsylvania | 57 | #220 | #273 |
| Missouri | 32 | #221 | #284 |
| Kansas | 18 | #222 | #285 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #229 | #188 |
| Nevada | 13 | #232 | #402 |
| Montana | 5 | #242 | #121 |
| Louisiana | 20 | #257 | #295 |
| Washington | 28 | #268 | #322 |
| Michigan | 37 | #272 | #346 |
| Alabama | 20 | #275 | #266 |
| Virginia | 29 | #291 | #372 |
| Texas | 132 | #292 | #304 |
| Georgia | 40 | #310 | #344 |
| Colorado | 21 | #311 | #348 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #319 | — |
| Arizona | 23 | #333 | #348 |
| Illinois | 30 | #353 | #543 |
| South Carolina | 15 | #353 | #374 |
| Minnesota | 15 | #374 | #592 |
| Florida | 50 | #384 | #448 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #409 | #240 |
| Maryland | 12 | #417 | #396 |
| California | 71 | #448 | #400 |
| New York | 21 | #697 | #833 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #805 | — |
| New Jersey | 7 | #845 | #994 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,188 | #285 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,227 | #277 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,304 | #264 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,462 | #240 |
| 2021 | — | — | 1,736 | #221 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,686 | #221 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,833 | #210 |
| 2018 | — | — | 1,628 | #236 |
| 2017 | — | — | 1,333 | #271 |
| 2016 | — | — | 1,033 | #337 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,018 | #338 |
| 2014 | — | — | 979 | #339 |
| 2013 | — | — | 975 | #333 |
| 2012 | — | — | 958 | #331 |
| 2011 | — | — | 954 | #327 |
| 2010 | — | — | 945 | #331 |
| 2009 | — | — | 821 | #369 |
| 2008 | — | — | 502 | #532 |
| 2007 | — | — | 428 | #593 |
| 2006 | — | — | 212 | #910 |
| 2005 | — | — | 186 | #938 |
| 2004 | — | — | 143 | #1,102 |
| 2003 | — | — | 157 | #1,008 |
| 2002 | — | — | 195 | #849 |
| 2001 | — | — | 190 | #847 |
| 2000 | — | — | 197 | #816 |
| 1999 | — | — | 194 | #792 |
| 1998 | — | — | 210 | #760 |
| 1997 | — | — | 242 | #673 |
| 1996 | — | — | 246 | #670 |
| 1995 | — | — | 236 | #693 |
| 1994 | — | — | 254 | #653 |
| 1993 | — | — | 236 | #669 |
| 1992 | — | — | 225 | #690 |
| 1991 | — | — | 201 | #716 |
| 1990 | — | — | 174 | #768 |
| 1989 | — | — | 167 | #767 |
| 1988 | — | — | 194 | #676 |
| 1987 | — | — | 266 | #557 |
| 1986 | — | — | 224 | #592 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,993 | 271 | #530 |
| 1984 | — | — | 273 | #517 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,262 | 351 | #442 |
| 1982 | — | — | 344 | #460 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,428 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,031 |
| 1979 | — | — | 20 | #2,394 |
| 1978 | — | — | 9 | #3,914 |
| 1977 | — | — | 16 | #2,679 |
| 1976 | — | — | 13 | #2,974 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,659 |
| 1974 | — | — | 17 | #2,379 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,742 |
| 1972 | — | — | 14 | #2,555 |
| 1971 | — | — | 16 | #2,382 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,573 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,899 |
| 1968 | — | — | 7 | #3,430 |
| 1967 | — | — | 6 | #3,627 |
| 1966 | — | — | 11 | #2,497 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,102 |
| 1963 | — | — | 10 | #2,707 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,090 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,576 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,081 |
| 1958 | — | — | 10 | #2,674 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,296 |
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).