Colt
Colt is ranked 276th among boys in 2024 (1,224 births). Its best rank was 210th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #276down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,2240.07% of boys
- Peak year
- 20191,833 births
- Best rank
- #210in 2019
- Since 1957
- 26,673people given the name
The story in the numbers
26,673 boys have been named Colt in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2019, with 1,833 births — 0.10% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 339 → 276).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2015, and the 2010s alone account for 44%. It has spent 41 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2019, its biggest year
Colt was the 210th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2019 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, William and Elijah. See all of 2019.
Names that rose and fell with Colt
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Koltpeak 2022
- Ariuspeak 2021
- Westonpeak 2024
- Jensonpeak 2021
- Imranpeak 2023
- Benaiahpeak 2021
- Alistairpeak 2024
- Greypeak 2021
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.