Meaning not yet researched.
Kolten: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 153 in 2025. Its best rank was #766 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #766 in 2011; #1,283 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kolten in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,283 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #766.
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Kolten: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 153 boys in 2025. Peak: #766 in 2011 · most boys in one year: 308 (2015).
In 2025, 153 US boys were named Kolten, making it the 1,283rd most common boys’ name of the year, up 168 places from #1,451 in 2024. That is 28 more than the 125 boys named Kolten in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #766, reached in 2011. The most boys given the name in a single year was 308, in 2015. For comparison, it was #771 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolten in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 9 babies. In all, 5,929 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,691 babies named Kolten.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,933 US boys were named Kolten; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 273. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,164 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kolten ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #118 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), Colten (16,358 babies since 1880) and Coltin (2,572 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 Kolten 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 9 | #118 | #109 |
| Alabama | 7 | #654 | #549 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #752 | #609 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #766 | #517 |
| Michigan | 9 | #804 | #546 |
| Missouri | 6 | #834 | #274 |
| Indiana | 6 | #908 | #446 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,093 | #627 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,185 | #484 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,300 | #764 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,345 | #735 |
| Florida | 5 | #1,986 | #895 |
| California | 6 | #2,350 | #1,500 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 153 | #1,283 |
| 2024 | — | — | 125 | #1,451 |
| 2023 | — | — | 145 | #1,320 |
| 2022 | — | — | 175 | #1,168 |
| 2021 | — | — | 195 | #1,085 |
| 2020 | — | — | 181 | #1,098 |
| 2019 | — | — | 236 | #925 |
| 2018 | — | — | 205 | #1,010 |
| 2017 | — | — | 245 | #879 |
| 2016 | — | — | 273 | #833 |
| 2015 | — | — | 308 | #771 |
| 2014 | — | — | 297 | #779 |
| 2013 | — | — | 259 | #831 |
| 2012 | — | — | 294 | #774 |
| 2011 | — | — | 293 | #766 |
| 2010 | — | — | 281 | #783 |
| 2009 | — | — | 242 | #872 |
| 2008 | — | — | 199 | #989 |
| 2007 | — | — | 175 | #1,067 |
| 2006 | — | — | 143 | #1,182 |
| 2005 | — | — | 124 | #1,264 |
| 2004 | — | — | 128 | #1,201 |
| 2003 | — | — | 121 | #1,214 |
| 2002 | — | — | 110 | #1,240 |
| 2001 | — | — | 116 | #1,182 |
| 2000 | — | — | 114 | #1,192 |
| 1999 | — | — | 98 | #1,263 |
| 1998 | — | — | 93 | #1,292 |
| 1997 | — | — | 100 | #1,196 |
| 1996 | — | — | 111 | #1,089 |
| 1995 | — | — | 68 | #1,450 |
| 1994 | — | — | 66 | #1,461 |
| 1993 | — | — | 70 | #1,388 |
| 1992 | — | — | 48 | #1,763 |
| 1991 | — | — | 37 | #2,037 |
| 1990 | — | — | 40 | #1,923 |
| 1989 | — | — | 34 | #2,091 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,034 |
| 1987 | — | — | 9 | #4,772 |
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).