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Kol

#4,325 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Kol has been given to 460 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,325 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Kol, 2025

1 in 138,000

Kol over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kol: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kol means

Kol is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Kol is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 460 boys were recorded with the name Kol between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2021; its best national rank was #2,606 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,822 in 2020 to #4,325 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,135 in 2015 to #4,325 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 Kol?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,325
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kol 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Kols were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kol was born before 2019 — so the typical Kol is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
460
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.5% of all recorded uses (223).

Is Kol 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
−963
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,503
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−190
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.96×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
48.0%
Peak was 2021 (50)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
56.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,606
2021

Where Kol is used

Across 1910–2025, Kol was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,536,231 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

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. Kol has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Kol around the world

Where Kol 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
    2020–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2022–2022
    #703
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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

Kol by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,325
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,503
Best rank ever
#2,606
2021
Peak year
2021
50 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
460
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Kol

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

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Sibling names for Kol

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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