girls:
11 births since 1914
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1885
#3298 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1885
#6414 (17th percentile)
The name Colon is the #6,414 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,329 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 17.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,298 (28.0% percentile) for all time with 1,318 births since 1885. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1914.
Colon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for boys and 1914 for girls). Birth data for Colon is available in 86 out of the 116 years between 1885 and 2000 (86 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Colon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Colon reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #511) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 52 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
For girls, Colon reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #583) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colon".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colon is pronounced as KOH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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