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Colten

#966 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Colton

Colten has been given to 16,358 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #966 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 757 recorded.

Babies named Colten, 2025

1 in 13,900

Colten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Colten: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Colton

surname transfer

What Colten means

Colten is a variant of Colton.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Colten → Colton. The family’s meaning is “coal + settlement”, recorded in English with the source elements cola and tun.

Origin, language, and formation

Colten is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Colten is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Colton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16,358 boys were recorded with the name Colten between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 757 in 2009; its best national rank was #386 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #755 in 2020 to #966 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #550 in 2015 to #966 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Colten?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,900
238 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,180
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#966
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,656 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Colten 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 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,656 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Colten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Coltens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Colten was born before 2008 — so the typical Colten is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16,358
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (5,528).

Is Colten 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
−67
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−211
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−416
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.46×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
31.4%
Peak was 2009 (757)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#386
2011

Spellings of Colten

Colten is not the most common spelling — Cole is, with 20.4% against Colten's 2.2%.

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 Colten is used

Across 2016–2025, Colten was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 1,613 boys, against 1 in 5,592 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 33,333).

362 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 1,613
  2. 2Missouri1 in 2,083
  3. 3Hawaii1 in 2,222
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 2,222
  5. 5Indiana1 in 2,326
  6. 6Michigan1 in 2,778
  7. 7Ohio1 in 3,030
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 3,125

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

Colten around the world

Where Colten 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.

  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #680
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Colten

People whose public names include Colten, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Colten in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Colten. Linked forms have their own page here.

Colton

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Colten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#966
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 211
Best rank ever
#386
2011
Peak year
2009
757 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16,358
Count in 2025
238

Names similar to Colten

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

ColterColsonColemanCollinColtinColbyAustenColtColtonCollinsColsenKoltenTristenColstenColtynColetonColesonJustenQuintenColmanColvinColdenColeyColin

Names with a curve like Colten

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

KeatonTalonJacobyZechariahUlisesKoleDominikTristianKeeganDrakeTraceJustus

Sibling names for Colten

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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