Meaning not yet researched.
Kolson: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #794 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #794 in 2024; #887 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kolson in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#887 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #794.
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Kolson: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 boys in 2025. Peak: #794 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 317 (2024).
In 2025, 269 US boys were named Kolson, making it the 887th most common boys’ name of the year, down 93 places from #794 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 317 boys named Kolson in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #794, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 317. For comparison, it was #3,403 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolson in 24 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2002 with 12 babies. In all, 2,084 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,475 babies named Kolson.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,808 US boys were named Kolson; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 317. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,350 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kolson ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #313 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Colson (9,729 babies since 1880), Colsen (1,710 babies since 1880) and Kolsen (813 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 Kolson 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 | 17 | #313 | — |
| West Virginia | 5 | #353 | — |
| Indiana | 17 | #421 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #450 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #484 | — |
| Ohio | 22 | #489 | — |
| Oklahoma | 7 | #596 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #603 | — |
| Minnesota | 8 | #613 | — |
| Missouri | 9 | #621 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #633 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #744 | — |
| Tennessee | 9 | #751 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #842 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #855 | — |
| North Carolina | 8 | #981 | — |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,034 | — |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,092 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,168 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,196 | #2,033 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,310 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,499 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 269 | #887 |
| 2024 | — | — | 317 | #794 |
| 2023 | — | — | 241 | #938 |
| 2022 | — | — | 267 | #886 |
| 2021 | — | — | 192 | #1,092 |
| 2020 | — | — | 189 | #1,061 |
| 2019 | — | — | 159 | #1,205 |
| 2018 | — | — | 75 | #1,968 |
| 2017 | — | — | 63 | #2,163 |
| 2016 | — | — | 36 | #3,195 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,403 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,579 |
| 2013 | — | — | 33 | #3,306 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,956 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,280 |
| 2010 | — | — | 25 | #4,058 |
| 2009 | — | — | 17 | #5,449 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,617 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,124 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,759 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,759 |
| 2004 | — | — | 9 | #7,910 |
| 2003 | — | — | 12 | #6,087 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,917 |
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).