Kolton
#594 for boys in 2025, 489 births
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 796 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 17,169since 1982
Kolton over time
Rank among boys' names. Kolton has never cracked the top 300 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 | #594 | 489 |
| 2024 | #527 | 565 |
| 2023 | #519 | 569 |
| 2022 | #507 | 586 |
| 2021 | #511 | 578 |
| 2020 | #442 | 672 |
| 2019 | #434 | 705 |
| 2018 | #423 | 727 |
| 2017 | #447 | 686 |
| 2016 | #491 | 619 |
| 2015 | #414 | 753 |
| 2014 | #407 | 759 |
| 2013 | #381 | 789 |
| 2012 | #379 | 796 |
| 2011 | #403 | 706 |
| 2010 | #414 | 678 |
| 2009 | #468 | 582 |
| 2008 | #478 | 581 |
| 2007 | #585 | 437 |
| 2006 | #637 | 366 |
| 2005 | #624 | 355 |
| 2004 | #639 | 329 |
| 2003 | #614 | 339 |
| 2002 | #571 | 385 |
| 2001 | #612 | 315 |
| 2000 | #611 | 314 |
| 1999 | #580 | 335 |
| 1998 | #608 | 302 |
| 1997 | #593 | 299 |
| 1996 | #555 | 334 |
| 1995 | #613 | 281 |
| 1994 | #732 | 206 |
| 1993 | #804 | 173 |
| 1992 | #836 | 159 |
| 1991 | #967 | 121 |
| 1990 | #1,072 | 98 |
| 1989 | #1,184 | 81 |
| 1988 | #1,576 | 46 |
| 1987 | #2,942 | 17 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kolton! It came in at #5,003, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Kolton
- 67 spots since 2024 (#527 → #594)
- 152 spots since 2020 (#442 → #594)
- 180 spots since 2015 (#414 → #594)
- Biggest jump: 131 spots in 1992 (#967 → #836)
- Biggest drop: 77 spots in 2016 (#414 → #491)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2012 at #379 (796 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 35 yrs · run 1991–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,383 boys born in 2012 were named Kolton (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,493 boys born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 42.0% of all boys named Kolton (7,218) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 181 | #1,184 (1989) | #3,834 |
| 1990s | 2,308 | #555 (1996) | #736 |
| 2000s | 4,003 | #468 (2009) | #584 |
| 2010s | 7,218 | #379 (2012) | #419 |
| 2020s | 3,459 | #442 (2020) | #517 |
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.
Kolton in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 16,697 of them was named Kolton, which outranked 90.0% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #963Deonta122
- #963Jory122
- #963Tyrel122
- #967Kolton121
- #967Denis121
- #967Deron121
- #967Kendal121
- #972Cheyenne120
- #972Deontae120
- #972Deshaun120
Tied with 4 names at #967; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.