Calton
Calton was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 299 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Calton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Calton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,567, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1939, the peak
Calton peaked in 1939, when 11 boys were given it, #2,180 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #12,567 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,770 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,025 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,642 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,860 | 2.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,816 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,087 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #7,929 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,399 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,587 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #8,280 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,527 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,028 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,581 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,115 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,504 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,893 | 3.8 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,577 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,073 | 3.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #3,589 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,552 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 5 | #3,873 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,133 | 3.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,785 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,758 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,632 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,811 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #3,785 | 2.7 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,560 | 5.5 |
| 1943 | 6 | #3,266 | 4.2 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,264 | 4.3 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,516 | 4.3 |
| 1939 | 11 | #2,180 | 9.9 |
| 1936 | 5 | #3,615 | 4.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,720 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,738 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,848 | 4.8 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,440 | 5.8 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,324 | 6.4 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,878 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 7 | #3,498 | 6.2 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,161 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 10 | #2,788 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,254 | 7.5 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,610 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,457 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Calton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Calton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Calton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Calton, and how old are they?
An estimated 160 Americans named Calton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (54% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 30 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 288 people named Calton (12 women and girls, 276 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 181 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 140,253 babies since 1880, Calton is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,130 babies recorded by SSA was a Calton (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Calton
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Calton and names like it
- Compare Calton and ClaytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sCalton peaked in 1939.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Calton since 1910.
- The top names of 1939The year the most babies were named Calton.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Calton alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.