Coulton
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Coulton has been given to 139 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Coulton, 2012
1 in 610,000
Coulton 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Coulton?
Coulton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 610,000
- 6 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 316,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 422,543 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Coulton sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 422,543 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Coulton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Coultons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Coulton was born before 1996 — so the typical Coulton is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 62.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 139
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 62.6% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Coulton 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (11)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.6% average annual change
Spellings of Coulton
Coulton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 54.3% against Coulton's 0.05%.
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.
Coulton around the world
Where Coulton 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 & Wales2014–2014#4,632in 2014
- Canada1994–1997#1,328in 1997
- South Australia1952–1952#345in 1952
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Coulton by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Coulton
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Coulton
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.