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Kolton

#594 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Colton

Kolton has been given to 17,169 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #594 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 796 recorded.

Babies named Kolton, 2025

1 in 6,780

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Kolton: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Colton

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Kolton means

Kolton is a variant of Colton.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Kolton is used in English.

Kolton is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Colton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17,169 boys were recorded with the name Kolton between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 796 in 2012; its best national rank was #379 in 2012.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #443 in 2020 to #594 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #415 in 2015 to #594 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 Kolton?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 6,780
489 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 3,490
0.03% of boys
Rank, 2025
#594
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
4,700 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Kolton 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 1001%
School of 5007%

Put another way: gather 4,700 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Koltons were born

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

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
83.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17,169
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (7,218).

Is Kolton 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
−66
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−179
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.65×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.4%
Peak was 2012 (796)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#379
2012

Spellings of Kolton

Kolton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 24.4% against Kolton's 2.8%.

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 Kolton is used

Across 2016–2025, Kolton was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 645 boys, against 1 in 2,582 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

4155 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 645
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 800
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 855
  4. 4Maine1 in 980
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 1,010
  6. 6Alabama1 in 1,111
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 1,282
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 1,370

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, Kolton is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 70% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Kolton around the world

Where Kolton 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
    2011–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2013–2021
    #374
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #916
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #588
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Kolton

People whose public names include Kolton, 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.

Kolton by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#594
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 151
Best rank ever
#379
2012
Peak year
2012
796 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
17,169
Count in 2025
489

Names similar to Kolton

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

KolstonKoletonKoltenKolbyDaytonDaxtonKeatonBurtonLaytonPaytonKentonJaxtonBostonPaxtonBentonKollinBartonWiltonNewtonHoustonKoleSuttonKolsonBrenton

Names with a curve like Kolton

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

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Sibling names for Kolton

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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