Meaning not yet researched.
Colten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 238 in 2025. Its best rank was #386 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #386 in 2011; #966 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Colten in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#966 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #386.
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Colten: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 238 boys in 2025. Peak: #386 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 757 (2009).
In 2025, 238 US boys were named Colten, making it the 966th most common boys’ name of the year, down 67 places from #899 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 263 boys named Colten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #386, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 757, in 2009. For comparison, it was #550 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Colten in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 16,358 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,528 babies named Colten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,148 US boys were named Colten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 443. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,177 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Colten ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #430 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Colton (152,174 babies since 1880), Kolton (17,169 babies since 1880), Kolten (5,929 babies since 1880) and Coltin (2,572 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Colten 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 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 11 | #430 | #307 |
| Indiana | 15 | #458 | #261 |
| Michigan | 18 | #465 | #394 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #561 | #313 |
| Alabama | 8 | #582 | #345 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #598 | #652 |
| Missouri | 9 | #603 | #351 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #604 | #840 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #633 | #333 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #646 | #430 |
| Ohio | 12 | #722 | #298 |
| Maryland | 5 | #825 | #543 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #930 | #491 |
| Arizona | 5 | #944 | #568 |
| Virginia | 6 | #992 | #350 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,155 | #1,093 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,172 | #458 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,238 | #521 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,498 | #723 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,504 | #551 |
| California | 9 | #1,715 | #1,090 |
| New York | 5 | #1,815 | #724 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 238 | #966 |
| 2024 | — | — | 263 | #899 |
| 2023 | — | — | 250 | #923 |
| 2022 | — | — | 250 | #923 |
| 2021 | — | — | 276 | #852 |
| 2020 | — | — | 320 | #755 |
| 2019 | — | — | 362 | #694 |
| 2018 | — | — | 384 | #658 |
| 2017 | — | — | 362 | #687 |
| 2016 | — | — | 443 | #608 |
| 2015 | — | — | 521 | #550 |
| 2014 | — | — | 608 | #474 |
| 2013 | — | — | 648 | #443 |
| 2012 | — | — | 721 | #407 |
| 2011 | — | — | 750 | #386 |
| 2010 | — | — | 729 | #390 |
| 2009 | — | — | 757 | #395 |
| 2008 | — | — | 724 | #410 |
| 2007 | — | — | 585 | #465 |
| 2006 | — | — | 505 | #513 |
| 2005 | — | — | 404 | #577 |
| 2004 | — | — | 391 | #577 |
| 2003 | — | — | 363 | #594 |
| 2002 | — | — | 395 | #564 |
| 2001 | — | — | 399 | #541 |
| 2000 | — | — | 411 | #531 |
| 1999 | — | — | 399 | #526 |
| 1998 | — | — | 442 | #492 |
| 1997 | — | — | 464 | #468 |
| 1996 | — | — | 417 | #500 |
| 1995 | — | — | 377 | #522 |
| 1994 | — | — | 339 | #557 |
| 1993 | — | — | 412 | #502 |
| 1992 | — | — | 318 | #572 |
| 1991 | — | — | 302 | #585 |
| 1990 | — | — | 266 | #618 |
| 1989 | — | — | 255 | #618 |
| 1988 | — | — | 134 | #816 |
| 1987 | — | — | 48 | #1,486 |
| 1986 | — | — | 30 | #1,968 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,126 |
| 1984 | — | — | 24 | #2,175 |
| 1983 | — | — | 19 | #2,505 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,319 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,211 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #5,967 |
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).