Kolson
Kolson was given to 269 boys in 2025, #887 among boys’ names; 2,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Kolson and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolson by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolson?
#887 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolson rose from #3,402 in 2015 to #887 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.16 per 1,000.
317 babies in 2024, the peak
Kolson peaked in 2024, when 317 boys were given it, #794 among boys’ names. The 269 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #887 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 317 | #794 | 0.18 |
| 2023 | 241 | #938 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 267 | #886 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 192 | #1,092 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 189 | #1,061 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 159 | #1,205 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 75 | #1,967 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 63 | #2,162 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,194 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #3,402 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,577 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #3,304 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,953 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,279 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 25 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,446 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,612 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,121 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,753 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,752 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,904 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,080 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,910 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolson a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolson has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolson: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolson, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,084 Americans ever recorded as Kolson. The median Kolson alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 617 people named Kolson (10 women and girls, 607 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 178 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Kolson born?
The states with the most babies named Kolson are Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 28% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 22 | #489 | 1.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #484 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 18 | #1,196 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 17 | #421 | 2.3× |
| Kentucky | 17 | #313 | 3.4× |
| Michigan | 10 | #744 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #751 | 1.4× |
| Missouri | 9 | #621 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,310 | 0.4× |
| Alabama | 8 | #603 | 1.6× |
Where Kolson is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kolson is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 2002 it was given 3.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kolson with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kolson?
Kolson is a less common spelling of Colson: SSA has recorded 2,084 Kolson and 9,729 Colson since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,356 babies since 1880, Kolson is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 2,447 babies (11%), the fourth 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 Kolson
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 Kolson and names like it
- Compare Kolson and ColsonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKolson peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolson since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Kolson.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kolson alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.