Kolton
Kolton was given to 489 boys in 2025, #594 among boys’ names; 17,169 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 16,900 Americans named Kolton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kolton mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kolton is “a male given name of modern usage.”
Re-spelling of Colton.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kolton?
#594 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolton fell from #415 in 2015 to #594 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.39 to 0.29 per 1,000.
796 babies in 2012, the peak
Kolton peaked in 2012, when 796 boys were given it, #379 among boys’ names. The 489 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 489 | #594 | 0.29 |
| 2024 | 565 | #528 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 569 | #519 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 586 | #508 | 0.34 |
| 2021 | 578 | #511 | 0.33 |
| 2020 | 672 | #443 | 0.39 |
| 2019 | 705 | #434 | 0.39 |
| 2018 | 727 | #423 | 0.40 |
| 2017 | 686 | #448 | 0.37 |
| 2016 | 619 | #491 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 753 | #415 | 0.39 |
| 2014 | 759 | #408 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 789 | #381 | 0.42 |
| 2012 | 796 | #379 | 0.42 |
| 2011 | 706 | #404 | 0.37 |
| 2010 | 678 | #414 | 0.35 |
| 2009 | 582 | #468 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 581 | #479 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 437 | #585 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 366 | #638 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 355 | #625 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 329 | #639 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 339 | #615 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 385 | #571 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 315 | #613 | 0.16 |
| 2000 | 314 | #611 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 335 | #581 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 302 | #608 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 299 | #593 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 334 | #555 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 281 | #612 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 206 | #732 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 173 | #803 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 159 | #836 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 121 | #965 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 98 | #1,075 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 46 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,022 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,681 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,881 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,337 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolton 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 Kolton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolton, and how old are they?
16,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 17,169 Americans ever recorded as Kolton. The median Kolton alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 12,116 people named Kolton (31 women and girls, 12,085 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,727 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 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,430 |
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 Kolton born?
The states with the most babies named Kolton are Texas, Kentucky and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Kentucky is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #817 | 1.0× |
| Kentucky | 32 | #176 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 28 | #610 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #393 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 26 | #419 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 25 | #448 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 23 | #466 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 20 | #334 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 17 | #327 | 1.5× |
| New York | 17 | #822 | 0.4× |
Where Kolton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kolton is most over-represented in Iowa: since 1982 it was given 2.2 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 Kolton 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 199,924 babies since 1880, Kolton is the second most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 489 of their 4,382 babies (11%), 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 Kolton
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 Kolton and names like it
- Compare Kolton and ColtonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKolton peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolton since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Kolton.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kolton alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.