Kolt
Kolt was given to 129 boys in 2025, #1,414 among boys’ names; 3,074 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,040 Americans named Kolt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolt?
#1,414 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolt rose from #1,441 in 2015 to #1,414 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 61.6 to 75.5 per million.
214 babies in 2022, the peak
Kolt peaked in 2022, when 214 boys were given it, #1,036 among boys’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,414 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 157 | #1,259 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 137 | #1,365 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 214 | #1,036 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 182 | #1,122 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 202 | #1,024 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 200 | #1,038 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 183 | #1,081 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 151 | #1,218 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 124 | #1,417 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 118 | #1,441 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 116 | #1,435 | 0.06 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,291 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 106 | #1,522 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,455 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,386 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 85 | #1,780 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 58 | #2,280 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 48 | #2,586 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,059 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,355 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,533 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,258 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,253 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,694 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,917 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,651 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,521 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 38 | #2,203 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,118 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 23 | #3,062 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,588 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,717 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 16 | #3,739 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,728 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,028 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 18 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,556 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 21 | #2,470 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,888 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 25 | #2,120 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #2,914 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolt, and how old are they?
3,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,074 Americans ever recorded as Kolt. The median Kolt alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 1,828 people named Kolt (14 women and girls, 1,814 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,079 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 283 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 721 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,030 |
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 Kolt born?
The states with the most babies named Kolt are Texas, Missouri and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Missouri is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 14 | #1,385 | 1.3× |
| Missouri | 7 | #756 | 1.6× |
| California | 6 | #2,349 | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | #850 | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,404 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #765 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,118 | 0.4× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,079 | 0.4× |
Where Kolt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kolt is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1982 it was given 1.6 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 Kolt 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 Kolt?
Kolt is a less common spelling of Colt: SSA has recorded 3,074 Kolt and 27,880 Colt since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 30,954 babies since 1880, Kolt is the second most given (9.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 1,317 babies (9.8%), 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 Kolt
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 Kolt and names like it
- Compare Kolt and ColtBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKolt peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolt since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Kolt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kolt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.