Colston
Colston was given to 80 boys in 2025, #1,933 among boys’ names; 1,247 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Colston and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colston by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colston?
#1,933 among boys’ names, 2025
Colston fell from #1,807 in 2015 to #1,933 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 43.3 to 46.8 per million.
91 babies in 2010, the peak
Colston peaked in 2010, when 91 boys were given it, #1,688 among boys’ names. The 80 births of 2025 are 88% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 80 | #1,933 | 46.8 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,838 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,066 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 46 | #2,798 | 26.3 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,380 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,351 | 33.0 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,190 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 41 | #2,900 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 50 | #2,537 | 27.0 |
| 2016 | 63 | #2,174 | 33.2 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 83 | #1,807 | 43.3 |
| 2014 | 77 | #1,890 | 40.1 |
| 2013 | 74 | #1,903 | 39.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,832 | 42.2 |
| 2011 | 79 | #1,812 | 41.6 |
| 2010 | 91 | #1,688 | 47.4 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,487 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 39 | #3,012 | 19.1 |
| 2007 | 40 | #2,932 | 19.3 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,837 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,292 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,115 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #7,978 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,783 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,169 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,340 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,715 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,872 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,313 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,123 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,486 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,039 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colston a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colston has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Colston: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colston, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,247 Americans ever recorded as Colston. The median Colston alive today is 11 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 901 people named Colston (12 women and girls, 889 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 928 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 18 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 446 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 771 |
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 Colston born?
The states with the most babies named Colston are Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 14 | #575 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 10 | #815 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,328 | 0.1× |
Where Colston is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Colston is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1994 it was given 9.5 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 Colston 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,974 babies since 1880, Colston is the most given (63% of them). In 2025 it was given to 80 of their 143 babies (56%), 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 Colston
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 Colston and names like it
- Compare Colston and KolstonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sColston peaked in 2010.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colston since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Colston.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Colston alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.