Colon
Colon was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 1,329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1885 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,653, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1927, the peak
Colon peaked in 1927, when 33 boys were given it, #1,275 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #10,653 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,247 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,038 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,306 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,811 | 5.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,093 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,932 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,775 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,485 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,609 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #5,115 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 9 | #4,201 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #4,930 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #4,225 | 4.9 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,425 | 6.7 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,071 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #4,911 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,257 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,739 | 8.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,584 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,570 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 12 | #2,568 | 6.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,944 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,301 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,296 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,025 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,438 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,894 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,537 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,574 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,053 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,320 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,036 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,862 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,290 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,233 | 6.3 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,222 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 18 | #1,845 | 9.1 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,953 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 17 | #1,847 | 9.0 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,463 | 5.6 |
| 1949 | 22 | #1,588 | 12.4 |
| 1948 | 18 | #1,770 | 10.3 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,863 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,302 | 17.9 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,544 | 14.1 |
| 1944 | 28 | #1,259 | 20.5 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,373 | 18.2 |
| 1942 | 30 | #1,276 | 21.7 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,371 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,747 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,541 | 17.2 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,280 | 24.3 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,227 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,475 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,549 | 19.2 |
| 1934 | 27 | #1,296 | 26.1 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,601 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,264 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,401 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 26 | #1,436 | 23.7 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,570 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,458 | 23.5 |
| 1927 | 33 | #1,275 | 29.3 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,575 | 20.7 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,024 | 14.3 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,540 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,388 | 25.5 |
| 1922 | 30 | #1,343 | 27.6 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,421 | 25.4 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,275 | 30.1 |
| 1919 | 19 | #1,763 | 19.4 |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,380 | 26.6 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,332 | 29.2 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,383 | 28.1 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,242 | 33.0 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,503 | 26.0 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,216 | 35.1 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,437 | 27.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,457 | 30.9 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,125 | 45.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,243 | 39.0 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,115 | 43.2 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,098 | 41.0 |
| 1886 | 6 | #860 | 54.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #853 | 55.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colon has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 86 years of records.
Girls and boys named Colon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colon, and how old are they?
An estimated 445 Americans named Colon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (34% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 51 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 772 people named Colon (43 women and girls, 729 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 545 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above 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).
Where are babies named Colon born?
The states with the most babies named Colon are North Carolina, Georgia and South Carolina, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 408 | not ranked | 9.9× |
| Georgia | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| South Carolina | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Colon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Colon is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 9.9 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 Colon 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 222,887 babies since 1880, Colon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,596 babies recorded by SSA was a Colon (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 Colon
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 Colon and names like it
- Compare Colon and ColinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sColon peaked in 1927.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colon since 1910.
- The top names of 1927The year the most babies were named Colon.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Colon alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.