Meaning not yet researched.
Kole: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #587 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #587 in 2010; #1,247 in 2025. About 97% of babies named Kole in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,247 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #587.
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Kole: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #587 in 2010 · most boys in one year: 433 (2009).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Kole, making it the 1,247th most common boys’ name of the year, down 47 places from #1,200 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 171 boys named Kole in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #587, reached in 2010. The most boys given the name in a single year was 433, in 2009. For comparison, it was #762 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kole in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1969 with 5 babies. In all, 9,855 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,454 babies named Kole.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,496 US boys were named Kole; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 310. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kole ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #632 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cole (154,646 babies since 1880) and Kohl (1,759 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Koal, Kuol and Koul 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: Koal (250), Kuol (16), Koul (8).
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 Kole 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 5 | #632 | #615 |
| Michigan | 8 | #877 | #416 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #882 | #683 |
| Missouri | 5 | #941 | #477 |
| Florida | 14 | #985 | #1,006 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,029 | #445 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,153 | #1,023 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,386 | #1,232 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,402 | #1,049 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,454 | #881 |
| California | 12 | #1,480 | #903 |
| New York | 6 | #1,667 | #1,202 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,203 | 160 | #1,247 |
| 2024 | — | — | 171 | #1,200 |
| 2023 | — | — | 226 | #971 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,526 | 217 | #1,023 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,438 | 272 | #859 |
| 2020 | — | — | 267 | #855 |
| 2019 | — | — | 279 | #816 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,998 | 301 | #771 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,253 | 310 | #759 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,359 | 293 | #798 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,529 | 313 | #762 |
| 2014 | — | — | 288 | #799 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,652 | 323 | #724 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,995 | 331 | #715 |
| 2011 | — | — | 353 | #669 |
| 2010 | — | — | 428 | #587 |
| 2009 | — | — | 433 | #598 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,533 | 363 | #667 |
| 2007 | — | — | 382 | #636 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,733 | 352 | #655 |
| 2005 | — | — | 376 | #601 |
| 2004 | — | — | 335 | #632 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,146 | 323 | #638 |
| 2002 | — | — | 327 | #613 |
| 2001 | — | — | 289 | #647 |
| 2000 | — | — | 258 | #686 |
| 1999 | — | — | 255 | #668 |
| 1998 | — | — | 215 | #750 |
| 1997 | — | — | 202 | #745 |
| 1996 | — | — | 155 | #882 |
| 1995 | — | — | 160 | #858 |
| 1994 | — | — | 138 | #938 |
| 1993 | — | — | 124 | #970 |
| 1992 | — | — | 105 | #1,072 |
| 1991 | — | — | 67 | #1,392 |
| 1990 | — | — | 56 | #1,524 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,180 |
| 1988 | — | — | 39 | #1,784 |
| 1987 | — | — | 33 | #1,920 |
| 1986 | — | — | 33 | #1,863 |
| 1985 | — | — | 36 | #1,712 |
| 1984 | — | — | 38 | #1,593 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,802 |
| 1982 | — | — | 21 | #2,384 |
| 1981 | — | — | 9 | #4,351 |
| 1980 | — | — | 10 | #4,002 |
| 1979 | — | — | 12 | #3,464 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,073 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,047 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,832 |
| 1972 | — | — | 11 | #3,070 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,314 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,733 |
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).