Meaning not yet researched.
Kolton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 489 in 2025. Its best rank was #379 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #379 in 2012; #594 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kolton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#594 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #379.
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Kolton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 489 boys in 2025. Peak: #379 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 796 (2012).
In 2025, 489 US boys were named Kolton, making it the 594th most common boys’ name of the year, down 66 places from #528 in 2024. That is 76 fewer than the 565 boys named Kolton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #379, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 796. For comparison, it was #415 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kolton in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 7 babies. In all, 17,169 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,218 babies named Kolton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,196 US boys were named Kolton; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 727. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,493 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kolton ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #176 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), Colten (16,358 babies since 1880), Kolten (5,929 babies since 1880) and Coltin (2,572 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kohlten and Koltynn 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: Kohlten (22), Koltynn (5).
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 Kolton 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 32 | #176 | #193 |
| Maine | 7 | #192 | #207 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #217 | #220 |
| Hawaii | 5 | #240 | #257 |
| Mississippi | 12 | #274 | #227 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #302 | #289 |
| Alabama | 17 | #327 | #273 |
| Missouri | 20 | #334 | #225 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #384 | #467 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #393 | #400 |
| South Carolina | 13 | #400 | #383 |
| Ohio | 26 | #419 | #246 |
| Georgia | 25 | #448 | #406 |
| Oregon | 8 | #459 | #477 |
| North Carolina | 23 | #466 | #335 |
| Kansas | 7 | #496 | #374 |
| Indiana | 13 | #526 | #289 |
| Arizona | 13 | #545 | #476 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #549 | #341 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #601 | #416 |
| Florida | 28 | #610 | #441 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #654 | #298 |
| Virginia | 10 | #708 | #403 |
| Illinois | 12 | #735 | #477 |
| Michigan | 10 | #745 | #292 |
| Texas | 33 | #817 | #561 |
| New York | 17 | #822 | #686 |
| Colorado | 5 | #912 | #503 |
| Washington | 6 | #951 | #506 |
| California | 15 | #1,276 | #854 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 489 | #594 |
| 2024 | — | — | 565 | #528 |
| 2023 | — | — | 569 | #519 |
| 2022 | — | — | 586 | #508 |
| 2021 | — | — | 578 | #511 |
| 2020 | — | — | 672 | #443 |
| 2019 | — | — | 705 | #434 |
| 2018 | — | — | 727 | #423 |
| 2017 | — | — | 686 | #448 |
| 2016 | — | — | 619 | #491 |
| 2015 | — | — | 753 | #415 |
| 2014 | — | — | 759 | #408 |
| 2013 | — | — | 789 | #381 |
| 2012 | — | — | 796 | #379 |
| 2011 | — | — | 706 | #404 |
| 2010 | — | — | 678 | #414 |
| 2009 | — | — | 582 | #468 |
| 2008 | — | — | 581 | #479 |
| 2007 | — | — | 437 | #585 |
| 2006 | — | — | 366 | #638 |
| 2005 | — | — | 355 | #625 |
| 2004 | — | — | 329 | #639 |
| 2003 | — | — | 339 | #615 |
| 2002 | — | — | 385 | #571 |
| 2001 | — | — | 315 | #613 |
| 2000 | — | — | 314 | #611 |
| 1999 | — | — | 335 | #582 |
| 1998 | — | — | 302 | #608 |
| 1997 | — | — | 299 | #593 |
| 1996 | — | — | 334 | #555 |
| 1995 | — | — | 281 | #613 |
| 1994 | — | — | 206 | #733 |
| 1993 | — | — | 173 | #805 |
| 1992 | — | — | 159 | #838 |
| 1991 | — | — | 121 | #970 |
| 1990 | — | — | 98 | #1,079 |
| 1989 | — | — | 81 | #1,191 |
| 1988 | — | — | 46 | #1,587 |
| 1987 | — | — | 17 | #3,026 |
| 1986 | — | — | 9 | #4,685 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,952 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,885 |
| 1983 | — | — | 8 | #4,723 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,339 |
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).