girls:
203 births since 1988
#5513 (4th percentile)
boys:
144.9k births since 1913
#232 (95th percentile)
overall:
145.1k births since 1913
#516 (93rd percentile)
The name Colton is the #516 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 145,085 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 93.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #232 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 144,882 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,513 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 203 births since 1988.
Colton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1988 for girls). Birth data for Colton is available in 87 out of the 111 years between 1913 and 2023 (87 years for boys and 25 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 Colton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Colton reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 93.7% percentile (ranked #59) with 2,985 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 3,210 births per million (ranked 92.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Colton ranks #92 for boys (90.0% percentile) with 2,018 births per million, which is 62.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Colton reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #922) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Colton ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 40.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Colton is pronounced as KOHL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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