boys:
1.1k births since 1994
#3482 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1994
#6618 (14th percentile)
The name Colston is the #6,618 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,121 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 14.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,482 (24.0% percentile) for all time with 1,121 births since 1994.
Colston first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (first recorded for boys in 1994).
For boys, Colston reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 9.8% percentile (ranked #794) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 44 births per million (ranked 9.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Colston ranks #876 for boys (3.8% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 49.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colston".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colston is pronounced as KOHL-stuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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