Colten
- #965 for boys in 2025, 238 births
- Peak · boys
- 2011 · 750 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 16,358since 1978
Colten over time
Rank among boys' names. Colten has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #965 | 238 |
| 2024 | #899 | 263 |
| 2023 | #921 | 250 |
| 2022 | #923 | 250 |
| 2021 | #852 | 276 |
| 2020 | #755 | 320 |
| 2019 | #694 | 362 |
| 2018 | #658 | 384 |
| 2017 | #687 | 362 |
| 2016 | #608 | 443 |
| 2015 | #549 | 521 |
| 2014 | #474 | 608 |
| 2013 | #443 | 648 |
| 2012 | #406 | 721 |
| 2011 | #386 | 750 |
| 2010 | #389 | 729 |
| 2009 | #395 | 757 |
| 2008 | #410 | 724 |
| 2007 | #465 | 585 |
| 2006 | #513 | 505 |
| 2005 | #577 | 404 |
| 2004 | #577 | 391 |
| 2003 | #594 | 363 |
| 2002 | #564 | 395 |
| 2001 | #541 | 399 |
| 2000 | #531 | 411 |
| 1999 | #526 | 399 |
| 1998 | #492 | 442 |
| 1997 | #468 | 464 |
| 1996 | #500 | 417 |
| 1995 | #522 | 377 |
| 1994 | #557 | 339 |
| 1993 | #502 | 412 |
| 1992 | #572 | 318 |
| 1991 | #585 | 302 |
| 1990 | #618 | 266 |
| 1989 | #618 | 255 |
| 1988 | #816 | 134 |
| 1987 | #1,484 | 48 |
| 1986 | #1,962 | 30 |
| 1985 | #2,116 | 26 |
| 1984 | #2,159 | 24 |
| 1983 | #2,493 | 19 |
| 1982 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Colten! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Colten is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#422 · 1 in 1,867
- Indiana#452 · 1 in 2,111
- Michigan#461 · 1 in 2,233
- South Carolina#552 · 1 in 2,650
- Alabama#573 · 1 in 2,690
Best ever in a state: #68 in Wyoming, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #422 | 11 | 1 in 1,867 |
| Indiana | #452 | 15 | 1 in 2,111 |
| Michigan | #461 | 18 | 1 in 2,233 |
| South Carolina | #552 | 8 | 1 in 2,650 |
| Alabama | #573 | 8 | 1 in 2,690 |
| Minnesota | #586 | 8 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Louisiana | #591 | 7 | 1 in 2,733 |
| Missouri | #597 | 9 | 1 in 3,090 |
| Wisconsin | #618 | 7 | 1 in 3,347 |
| Tennessee | #638 | 11 | 1 in 3,343 |
| Ohio | #710 | 12 | 1 in 4,378 |
| Maryland | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,579 |
| Pennsylvania | #913 | 8 | 1 in 6,532 |
| Arizona | #927 | 5 | 1 in 6,545 |
| Virginia | #971 | 6 | 1 in 6,209 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| North Carolina | #1,144 | 6 | 1 in 8,578 |
| Georgia | #1,216 | 6 | 1 in 8,370 |
| Florida | #1,478 | 7 | 1 in 13,648 |
| Texas | #1,483 | 12 | 1 in 14,588 |
| California | #1,687 | 9 | 1 in 19,497 |
| New York | #1,760 | 5 | 1 in 16,885 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Colten
- 210 spots since 2020 (#755 → #965)
- Biggest jump: 668 spots in 1988
- Biggest drop: 97 spots in 2021
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2011 at #386 (750 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1988–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,532 boys born in 2011 were named Colten (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,177 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.8% of all boys named Colten (5,528) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 558 | #618 (1989) | #2,120 |
| 1990s | 3,736 | #468 (1997) | #534 |
| 2000s | 4,934 | #395 (2009) | #517 |
| 2010s | 5,528 | #386 (2011) | #529 |
| 2020s | 1,597 | #755 (2020) | #886 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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