Koleton
Koleton was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,418 among boys’ names; 348 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koleton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koleton?
#11,418 among boys’ names, 2025
Koleton fell from #6,539 in 2015 to #11,418 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 3.5 per million.
22 babies in 2009, the peak
Koleton peaked in 2009, when 22 boys were given it, #4,518 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,418 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,475 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,384 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,212 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,194 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,345 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,279 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 5 | #13,385 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,552 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,539 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 12 | #6,882 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,082 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,322 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,329 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,613 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,518 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,653 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 18 | #5,121 | 8.7 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,433 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,751 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,903 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,166 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,037 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,532 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,751 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,193 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,095 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,771 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,592 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,719 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,124 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,570 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koleton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koleton 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 Koleton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koleton, and how old are they?
An estimated 343 Americans named Koleton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 13 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 264 people named Koleton (0 women and girls, 264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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).
How common is the spelling Koleton?
Koleton is a less common spelling of Coleton: SSA has recorded 348 Koleton and 2,992 Coleton since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 180,970 babies since 1880, Koleton is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 4,118 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Koleton
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 Koleton and names like it
- Compare Koleton and ColetonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sKoleton peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Koleton.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Koleton alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.