Meaning not yet researched.
Kolt: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,024 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,024 in 2020; #1,414 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kolt in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,414 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,024.
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Kolt: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,024 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 214 (2022).
In 2025, 129 US boys were named Kolt, making it the 1,414th most common boys’ name of the year, down 155 places from #1,259 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 157 boys named Kolt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,024, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 214, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,441 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolt in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 16 babies. In all, 3,074 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,366 babies named Kolt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,679 US boys were named Kolt; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 214. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,241 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kolt ranked highest in Missouri in 2025, at #756 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Colt (27,880 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 Kolt 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 7 | #756 | #903 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #765 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #850 | #765 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,079 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,118 | #793 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,385 | #1,180 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,404 | #1,454 |
| California | 6 | #2,349 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 129 | #1,414 |
| 2024 | — | — | 157 | #1,259 |
| 2023 | — | — | 137 | #1,365 |
| 2022 | — | — | 214 | #1,036 |
| 2021 | — | — | 182 | #1,122 |
| 2020 | — | — | 202 | #1,024 |
| 2019 | — | — | 200 | #1,038 |
| 2018 | — | — | 183 | #1,081 |
| 2017 | — | — | 151 | #1,218 |
| 2016 | — | — | 124 | #1,417 |
| 2015 | — | — | 118 | #1,441 |
| 2014 | — | — | 116 | #1,435 |
| 2013 | — | — | 134 | #1,291 |
| 2012 | — | — | 106 | #1,522 |
| 2011 | — | — | 113 | #1,455 |
| 2010 | — | — | 121 | #1,386 |
| 2009 | — | — | 85 | #1,781 |
| 2008 | — | — | 58 | #2,281 |
| 2007 | — | — | 48 | #2,586 |
| 2006 | — | — | 36 | #3,060 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,170 |
| 2004 | — | — | 12 | #6,361 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,538 |
| 2002 | — | — | 19 | #4,264 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,260 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,701 |
| 1999 | — | — | 19 | #3,922 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,655 |
| 1997 | — | — | 32 | #2,525 |
| 1996 | — | — | 38 | #2,208 |
| 1995 | — | — | 39 | #2,123 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,068 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,594 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,724 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,746 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,096 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,734 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,033 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,898 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,559 |
| 1985 | — | — | 21 | #2,471 |
| 1984 | — | — | 16 | #2,889 |
| 1983 | — | — | 25 | #2,121 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,915 |
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).