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Kolten

#1,283 in 2025Boys' name

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

Kolten has been given to 5,929 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #1,283 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 308 recorded.

Babies named Kolten, 2025

1 in 21,700

Kolten over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kolten: meaning, origin, and history

Transferred from a surname; no fixed literal translation

surname transfer

What Kolten means

Kolten is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

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

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,929 boys were recorded with the name Kolten between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 308 in 2015; its best national rank was #766 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,098 in 2020 to #1,283 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #771 in 2015 to #1,283 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 Kolten?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,700
153 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,283
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,020 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kolten 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,020 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolten. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Koltens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Kolten was born before 2012 — so the typical Kolten is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,929
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Choose a decade

2010s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (2,691).

Is Kolten 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
+168
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−185
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−512
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
49.7%
Peak was 2015 (308)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#766
2011

Spellings of Kolten

Kolten is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 44.7% against Kolten's 1.7%.

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 Kolten is used

Across 2016–2025, Kolten was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 386 boys, against 1 in 9,996 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in 50,000).

2259 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 386
  2. 2Missouri1 in 2,439
  3. 3Indiana1 in 4,167
  4. 4Kentucky1 in 5,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 5,263
  6. 6Michigan1 in 5,263
  7. 7West Virginia1 in 5,263
  8. 8Ohio1 in 5,556

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.

Kolten around the world

Where Kolten 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.

  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Kolten by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,283
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 185
Best rank ever
#766
2011
Peak year
2015
308 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,929
Count in 2025
153

Names similar to Kolten

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

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Names with a curve like Kolten

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

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Sibling names for Kolten

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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