Kolton — #529 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Kolton

The Social Security Administration has registered 16,674 babies named Kolton between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kolton currently holds the #529 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 796 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kolton performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Kolton shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,649 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Kolton in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kolton in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 16,674 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.