Kolten
Kolten was given to 153 boys in 2025, #1,283 among boys’ names; 5,929 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,850 Americans named Kolten 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 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolten by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kolten mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kolten is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Modern fanciful spelling of Colton.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kolten?
#1,283 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolten fell from #771 in 2015 to #1,283 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.16 to 0.09 per 1,000.
308 babies in 2015, the peak
Kolten peaked in 2015, when 308 boys were given it, #771 among boys’ names. The 153 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 153 | #1,283 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,451 | 0.07 |
| 2023 | 145 | #1,320 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 175 | #1,168 | 0.10 |
| 2021 | 195 | #1,085 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 181 | #1,098 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 236 | #925 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 205 | #1,010 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 245 | #879 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 273 | #833 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 308 | #771 | 0.16 |
| 2014 | 297 | #779 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 259 | #831 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 294 | #774 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 293 | #766 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 281 | #783 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 242 | #872 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 199 | #989 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 175 | #1,067 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 143 | #1,182 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 124 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 128 | #1,199 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,213 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 110 | #1,237 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,180 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,190 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 98 | #1,260 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,289 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 100 | #1,193 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,087 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 68 | #1,445 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 66 | #1,456 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 70 | #1,383 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 48 | #1,758 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 37 | #2,031 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 40 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #2,085 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,765 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolten a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolten has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolten: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolten, and how old are they?
5,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,929 Americans ever recorded as Kolten. The median Kolten alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 4,296 people named Kolten (16 women and girls, 4,280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,947 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 482 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,780 |
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 Kolten born?
The states with the most babies named Kolten are Michigan, Hawaii and Tennessee, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Hawaii and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 9 | #804 | 1.2× |
| Hawaii | 9 | #118 | 6.4× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #752 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,093 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 7 | #654 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 6 | #834 | 2.5× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,185 | 1.3× |
| Indiana | 6 | #908 | 2.0× |
| California | 6 | #2,350 | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,300 | 0.7× |
Where Kolten is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kolten is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1987 it was given 6.4 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 Kolten with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 197,763 babies since 1880, Kolten is the fourth most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 153 of their 4,383 babies (3.5%), again the fourth 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 Kolten
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 Kolten and names like it
- Compare Kolten and ColtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKolten peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolten since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Kolten: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Kolten.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kolten alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.