Coleton
Coleton was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,379 among boys’ names; 2,992 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Coleton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coleton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coleton?
#8,379 among boys’ names, 2025
Coleton fell from #2,002 in 2015 to #8,379 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 37.6 to 5.3 per million.
150 babies in 1997, the peak
Coleton peaked in 1997, when 150 boys were given it, #908 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,379 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,526 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,498 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,550 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,148 | 10.3 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,497 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,810 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 35 | #3,252 | 19.3 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,200 | 19.4 |
| 2016 | 52 | #2,442 | 27.4 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 72 | #2,002 | 37.6 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,122 | 33.8 |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,166 | 32.2 |
| 2012 | 87 | #1,730 | 45.9 |
| 2011 | 83 | #1,757 | 43.7 |
| 2010 | 114 | #1,449 | 59.4 |
| 2009 | 131 | #1,324 | 66.0 |
| 2008 | 149 | #1,189 | 73.0 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,528 | 49.6 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,256 | 64.7 |
| 2005 | 119 | #1,289 | 59.6 |
| 2004 | 115 | #1,294 | 57.9 |
| 2003 | 111 | #1,277 | 56.2 |
| 2002 | 132 | #1,106 | 68.0 |
| 2001 | 138 | #1,051 | 71.0 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,074 | 67.2 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,047 | 68.2 |
| 1998 | 117 | #1,094 | 61.2 |
| 1997 | 150 | #908 | 79.6 |
| 1996 | 119 | #1,028 | 62.8 |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,202 | 48.3 |
| 1994 | 94 | #1,175 | 48.7 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,354 | 36.2 |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,325 | 36.0 |
| 1991 | 60 | #1,463 | 29.7 |
| 1990 | 41 | #1,873 | 20.0 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,857 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,213 | 5.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #5,920 | 3.2 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,766 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coleton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coleton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coleton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coleton, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,992 Americans ever recorded as Coleton. The median Coleton alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,451 people named Coleton (0 women and girls, 2,451 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,869 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 589 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 432 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Coleton born?
The states with the most babies named Coleton are Texas, California and Ohio, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 273 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 162 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 137 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 79 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 77 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 75 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Indiana | 63 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 53 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 40 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 40 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Coleton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Coleton is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1982 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Coleton with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 194,020 babies since 1880, Coleton is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 4,210 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Coleton
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 Coleton and names like it
- Compare Coleton and ColtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sColeton peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coleton since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Coleton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Coleton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.