Colt — #276 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Colt

The Social Security Administration has registered 26,673 babies named Colt between 1957 and 2024, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colt currently holds the #276 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2019, when 1,833 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colt performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,654 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Colt shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,450 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Colt in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colt 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 26,673 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.