Colson
Colson was given to 1,099 boys in 2025, #311 among boys’ names; 9,729 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,640 Americans named Colson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colson?
#311 among boys’ names, 2025
Colson rose from #1,111 in 2015 to #311 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.09 to 0.64 per 1,000.
1,099 babies in 2025, the peak
Colson peaked in 2025, when 1,099 boys were given it, #311 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 949 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,099 | #311 | 0.64 |
| 2024 | 949 | #355 | 0.55 |
| 2023 | 950 | #345 | 0.56 |
| 2022 | 1,059 | #317 | 0.61 |
| 2021 | 1,025 | #323 | 0.59 |
| 2020 | 902 | #351 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 657 | #455 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 409 | #639 | 0.23 |
| 2017 | 323 | #738 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 188 | #1,050 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 173 | #1,111 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,246 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 153 | #1,175 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 145 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 178 | #1,057 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 151 | #1,191 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 122 | #1,392 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 131 | #1,326 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 95 | #1,553 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 88 | #1,574 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,441 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 76 | #1,645 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 61 | #1,850 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 96 | #1,341 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 53 | #1,942 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 42 | #2,161 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,353 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,560 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,481 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,257 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,356 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #5,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,314 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,562 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,710 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,477 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Colson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colson, and how old are they?
9,640 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 9,729 Americans ever recorded as Colson. The median Colson alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 3,752 people named Colson (33 women and girls, 3,719 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,929 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 132 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,980 |
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 Colson born?
The states with the most babies named Colson are Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 83 | #163 | 2.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | #173 | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 60 | #208 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 58 | #550 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 57 | #339 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 51 | #164 | 2.0× |
| Missouri | 49 | #142 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 44 | #281 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 44 | #228 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 42 | #211 | 1.3× |
Where Colson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Colson is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1924 it was given 2.8 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 Colson 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 18,356 babies since 1880, Colson is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,099 of their 2,447 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Colson
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 Colson and names like it
- Compare Colson and ColesonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sColson peaked in 2025.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colson since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Colson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Colson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.