Colton — #98 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Colton

The Social Security Administration has registered 148,509 babies named Colton between 1913 and 2024, spanning 112 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Colton currently holds the #98 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2013, when 6,488 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Colton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 58,455 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Colton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 13,956 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Colton in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Colton 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 148,509 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.