Kolden
Kolden was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,237 among boys’ names; 301 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolden?
#10,237 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolden fell from #5,885 in 2015 to #10,237 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.1 per million.
21 babies in 2009, the peak
Kolden peaked in 2009, when 21 boys were given it, #4,676 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,237 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,464 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,629 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,674 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,321 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,587 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,219 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,295 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,705 | 11.1 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,885 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 15 | #5,881 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,843 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,152 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,469 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,374 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,676 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,380 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,120 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,214 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 11 | #6,894 | 5.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #5,996 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,014 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 6 | #9,986 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,391 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,864 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolden has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolden, and how old are they?
An estimated 298 Americans named Kolden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 229 people named Kolden (1 woman or girl, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,315 babies since 1880, Kolden is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 31 babies (23%), again the second 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 Kolden
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 Kolden and names like it
- Compare Kolden and ColdenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKolden peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Kolden.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kolden alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.