Bolton
#7,256 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Bolton has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 1905. In 2025 it ranked #7,256 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Bolton, 2025
1 in 301,000
Bolton over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Bolton?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 155,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,256
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Bolton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bolton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Boltons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Bolton was born before 2014 — so the typical Bolton is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 38.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 227
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 38.1% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Bolton rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,140
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +3,522
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −883
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.85×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 73.3%
- Peak was 2017 (15)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.0% average annual change
Spellings of Bolton
Bolton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 24.6% against Bolton's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Bolton around the world
Where Bolton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2008–2008#4,547in 2008
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Bolton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Bolton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Bolton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.