girls:
11 births since 1983
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
25.4k births since 1957
#722 (84th percentile)
overall:
25.4k births since 1957
#1595 (79th percentile)
The name Colt is the #1,595 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,447 recorded births since 1957. This represents the 79.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #722 (84.3% percentile) for all time with 25,436 births since 1957. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1983.
Colt first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1957 (1957 for boys and 1983 for girls). Birth data for Colt is available in 65 out of the 67 years between 1957 and 2023 (65 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 Colt has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Colt reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 77.8% percentile (ranked #204) with 954 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 954 births per million (ranked 77.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Colt ranks #256 for boys (72.0% percentile) with 709 births per million, which is 74.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Colt reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #774) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colt".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colt is pronounced as kohlt, which has 1 syllables.
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