Koltan
Koltan was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 252 Americans have been recorded with it between 1991 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koltan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koltan?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,304, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 2013, the peak
Koltan peaked in 2013, when 20 boys were given it, #4,725 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,304 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,663 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,140 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,537 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,271 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,519 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,417 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,175 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,725 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,390 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | #5,834 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,911 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,488 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,613 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,801 | 7.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,431 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,680 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,905 | 4.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,103 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,575 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,862 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,341 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,123 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,594 | 3.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,348 | 5.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,806 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Koltan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koltan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koltan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koltan, and how old are they?
An estimated 248 Americans named Koltan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 12 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 225 people named Koltan (1 woman or girl, 224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Koltan
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.