boys:
16.1k births since 1982
#913 (80th percentile)
overall:
16.1k births since 1982
#2045 (74th percentile)
The name Kolton is the #2,045 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16,107 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 73.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #913 (80.1% percentile) for all time with 16,107 births since 1982.
Kolton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (first recorded for boys in 1982).
For boys, Kolton reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 60.4% percentile (ranked #357) with 392 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 392 births per million (ranked 60.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Kolton ranks #458 for boys (49.8% percentile) with 310 births per million, which is 79.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kolton".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kolton is pronounced as KOHL-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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