Coltan
Coltan was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 796 Americans have been recorded with it between 1988 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Coltan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Coltan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,198, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
44 babies in 2009, the peak
Coltan peaked in 2009, when 44 boys were given it, #2,760 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #11,198 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,378 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,900 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,306 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,865 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,608 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,138 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,139 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,649 | 11.1 |
| 2015 | 29 | #3,705 | 15.1 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 22 | #4,414 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,010 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 25 | #4,025 | 13.2 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,617 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,259 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 44 | #2,760 | 22.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,890 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 30 | #3,520 | 14.5 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,911 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,729 | 12.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,141 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,301 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,952 | 16.0 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,730 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,435 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,377 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,108 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,621 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,539 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 24 | #2,930 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 21 | #3,233 | 10.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,258 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,017 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,665 | 7.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,626 | 7.8 |
| 1989 | 22 | #2,796 | 11.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,214 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Coltan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Coltan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Coltan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Coltan, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Coltan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 14 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 702 people named Coltan (3 women and girls, 699 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 745 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 199,601 babies since 1880, Coltan is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 4,357 babies recorded by SSA was a Coltan (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 Coltan
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 Coltan and names like it
- Compare Coltan and ColtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sColtan peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Coltan since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Coltan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Coltan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.