Kolya — boys' name

What the Data Says About Kolya

The Social Security Administration has registered 14 babies named Kolya between 1987 and 2002, spanning 16 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Kolya currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2002. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 9 babies received it in a single year. Kolya is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 6 additional births since 1999.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Kolya performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 9 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Kolya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Kolya 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 14 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.