Kolt
#1,414 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kolt has been given to 3,074 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,414 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 214 recorded.
Babies named Kolt, 2025
1 in 25,700
Kolt 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kolt?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 25,700
- 129 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 13,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #1,414
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 17,814 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kolt 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 17,814 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolt. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kolts were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kolt was born before 2017 — so the typical Kolt is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,074
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (1,366).
Is Kolt 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
- −155
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −390
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +27
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.09×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 60.3%
- Peak was 2022 (214)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kolt
Kolt is not the most common spelling — Kyle is, with 46.7% against Kolt's 0.30%.
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 Kolt is used
Across 2016–2025, Kolt was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 11,607 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Iowa1 in 2,564
- 2Oklahoma1 in 3,030
- 3West Virginia1 in 3,448
- 4Missouri1 in 3,571
- 5South Dakota1 in 3,704
- 6Louisiana1 in 4,545
- 7Kansas1 in 5,882
- 8Indiana1 in 6,250
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.
Kolt around the world
Where Kolt 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 & Wales2018–2018#4,749in 2018
- Canada1994–2024#1,698in 2024
- South Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
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.
Kolt by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kolt
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Kolt
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Kolt, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Kolt
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.