Kolten
#1,281 for boys in 2025, 153 births
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 293 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,929since 1987
Kolten over time
Rank among boys' names. Kolten has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,281 | 153 |
| 2024 | #1,448 | 125 |
| 2023 | #1,315 | 145 |
| 2022 | #1,168 | 175 |
| 2021 | #1,085 | 195 |
| 2020 | #1,095 | 181 |
| 2019 | #925 | 236 |
| 2018 | #1,009 | 205 |
| 2017 | #876 | 245 |
| 2016 | #832 | 273 |
| 2015 | #771 | 308 |
| 2014 | #779 | 297 |
| 2013 | #829 | 259 |
| 2012 | #772 | 294 |
| 2011 | #764 | 293 |
| 2010 | #783 | 281 |
| 2009 | #867 | 242 |
| 2008 | #987 | 199 |
| 2007 | #1,066 | 175 |
| 2006 | #1,178 | 143 |
| 2005 | #1,261 | 124 |
| 2004 | #1,196 | 128 |
| 2003 | #1,210 | 121 |
| 2002 | #1,236 | 110 |
| 2001 | #1,178 | 116 |
| 2000 | #1,188 | 114 |
| 1999 | #1,259 | 98 |
| 1998 | #1,288 | 93 |
| 1997 | #1,190 | 100 |
| 1996 | #1,088 | 111 |
| 1995 | #1,448 | 68 |
| 1994 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #1,379 | 70 |
| 1992 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #2,019 | 37 |
| 1990 | #1,909 | 40 |
| 1989 | #2,068 | 34 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #4,573 | 9 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kolten! It came in at #4,573, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1987, when fewer than 10 boys a year got the name.
Where Kolten is popular in 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#399 · 1 in 2,446
- Indiana#431 · 1 in 2,735
- Ohio#476 · 1 in 3,580
- Missouri#478 · 1 in 3,138
- Mississippi#554 · 1 in 3,146
Best ever in a state: #96 in Hawaii, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Wisconsin | #399 | 12 | 1 in 2,446 |
| Indiana | #431 | 14 | 1 in 2,735 |
| Ohio | #476 | 18 | 1 in 3,580 |
| Missouri | #478 | 11 | 1 in 3,138 |
| Mississippi | #554 | 5 | 1 in 3,146 |
| Oregon | #606 | 5 | 1 in 4,027 |
| Colorado | #609 | 7 | 1 in 4,239 |
| Michigan | #668 | 10 | 1 in 5,140 |
| Virginia | #697 | 8 | 1 in 5,372 |
| Arizona | #905 | 5 | 1 in 8,681 |
| Illinois | #999 | 8 | 1 in 9,344 |
| Georgia | #1,006 | 7 | 1 in 8,741 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,008 | 6 | 1 in 10,645 |
| Texas | #1,027 | 17 | 1 in 11,129 |
| Florida | #1,318 | 7 | 1 in 14,358 |
| New York | #1,794 | 5 | 1 in 21,823 |
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See more about Kolten
- 167 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,281)
- 186 spots since 2020 (#1,095 → #1,281)
- 510 spots since 2015 (#771 → #1,281)
- Biggest jump: 120 spots in 2009 (#987 → #867)
- Biggest drop: 170 spots in 2020 (#925 → #1,095)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 2011 at #764 (293 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2008–2017
- Highest: 1 in 6,223 boys born in 2015 were named Kolten (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,164 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #764 in 2011, was only 1 in 6,482 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 45.4% of all boys named Kolten (2,691) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 61 | #2,068 (1989) | #3,201 |
| 1990s | 731 | #1,088 (1996) | #1,478 |
| 2000s | 1,472 | #867 (2009) | #1,137 |
| 2010s | 2,691 | #764 (2011) | #834 |
| 2020s | 974 | #1,085 (2021) | #1,232 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Kolten in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 10,252 of them was named Kolten, which outranked 93.3% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).