Colton
Colton is ranked 98th among boys in 2024 (3,588 births). Its best rank was 59th, in 2019.
- Rank in 2024
- #98down 4 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,5880.21% of boys
- Peak year
- 20136,488 births
- Best rank
- #59in 2019
- Since 1913
- 148,509people given the name
The story in the numbers
148,509 boys have been named Colton in the United States since 1913, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2013, with 6,488 births — 0.34% 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 65 → 98).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 43 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 17 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Colton | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | |
| 1920s | 28 | |
| 1930s | 24 | |
| 1940s | 24 | |
| 1950s | 59 | |
| 1960s | 130 | |
| 1970s | 264 | |
| 1980s | 3,991 | |
| 1990s | 30,472 | |
| 2000s | 34,249 | |
| 2010s | 58,455 | |
| 2020s | 20,802 |
In 2013, its biggest year
Colton was the 65th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2013 were Noah, Jacob, Liam, Mason and William. See all of 2013.
Names that rose and fell with Colton
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Aleksandrpeak 2016
- Gunnarpeak 2015
- Dezmondpeak 2009
- Kainpeak 2016
- Maximilianpeak 2016
- Koltonpeak 2012
- Bransonpeak 2014
- Khristianpeak 2013
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.