Colston — #2852 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Colston

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,167 babies named Colston between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colston currently holds the #2852 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2010, when 91 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colston performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 702 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Colston shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 189 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Mississippi. In total, SSA state-level files list Colston in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colston in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,167 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.