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Colson

#311 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly son of Col

Colson has been given to 9,729 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #311 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 1,099 recorded.

Babies named Colson, 2025

1 in 3,020

Colson over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Colson: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly son of Col

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Colson means

Colson may mean “son of Col”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,729 boys were recorded with the name Colson between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,099 in 2025; its best national rank was #311 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #351 in 2020 to #311 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,111 in 2015 to #311 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Colson?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,020
1,099 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 1,550
0.06% of boys
Rank, 2025
#311
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,092 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Colson sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,092 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Colson. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Colsons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Colson was born before 2021 — so the typical Colson is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,719
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (5,984).

Is Colson 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
+44
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+40
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+800
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.35×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (1,099)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#311
2025

Spellings of Colson

Colson is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 20.8% against Colson's 1.3%.

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.

Where Colson is used

Across 2016–2025, Colson was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 427 boys, against 1 in 2,096 across all states with data. It was least common in New Mexico (1 in 14,286).

7234 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 427
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 775
  3. 3Indiana1 in 847
  4. 4Ohio1 in 901
  5. 5Missouri1 in 1,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 1,042
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 1,149
  8. 8Iowa1 in 1,163

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Colson is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 72% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Colson around the world

Where Colson 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.

  • England & Wales
    2017–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #647
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #510
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Colson by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#311
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 40
Best rank ever
#311
2025
Peak year
2025
1,099 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,729
Count in 2025
1,099

Names similar to Colson

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Colson

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Colson, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Colson

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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