Colton

#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #103 for boys in 2025, 3,420 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time

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Peak · boys
2019 · 5,739 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
17 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · boys
151,965
since 1913

Colton over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #59, 2019boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#13,2086#1033,420
2024—#983,600
2023#12,1977#943,707
2022—#913,926
2021#13,4646#754,566
2020—#665,025
2019—#595,739
2018#10,5459#685,314
2017#10,6899#705,294
2016#14,3316#685,624
2015#11,8358#606,318
2014#10,9559#656,405
2013#14,5826#656,490
2012#14,9626#656,362
2011#11,1819#745,601
2010—#735,321
2009#15,2426#934,771
2008—#984,550
2007#12,6768#1183,657
2006—#1353,003
2005#11,8348#1552,657
2004#5,96920#1352,955
2003#13,8446#1352,953
2002#13,5956#1283,047
2001—#1183,246
2000—#1113,410
1999—#1093,288
1998#14,1225#1063,573
1997#10,8367#1083,600
1996#6,72313#1053,788
1995#10,5147#1053,588
1994—#1212,857
1993#8,05210#1262,750
1992#8,7349#1332,548
1991—#1452,245
1990#6,46513#1392,235
1989#12,3625#1571,925
1988#11,7985#268879
1987—#494324
1986—#577236
1985—#674173
1984—#756131
1983—#805118
1982—#802122
1981—#1,33449
1980—#1,69534
1979—#1,71133
1978—#1,91326
1977—#1,74330
1976—#1,67731
1975—#1,53034
1974—#1,74727
1973—#1,78225
1972—#1,87123
1971—#2,27917
1970—#2,12518
1969—#2,13016
1968—#2,03016
1967—#2,35212
1966—#1,81418
1965—#2,17814
1964—#2,54611
1963—#2,8589
1962—#2,50411
1961—#2,07016
1960—#3,3377
1959—#2,8219
1958—#3,5596
1957—#2,8229
1956—#2,9698
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1953—#3,7985
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1950—#2,32111
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1943—#3,5385
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1939—#2,4499
1938—#3,5345
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1931—#3,7635
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five boys were named Colton! It came in at #2,496, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Colton is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more boys named Colton in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Colton
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 5 spots since 2024 (#98 → #103)
  • 37 spots since 2020 (#66 → #103)
  • 43 spots since 2015 (#60 → #103)
  • Biggest jump: 532 spots in 1982 (#1,334 → #802)
  • Biggest drop: 20 spots in 2005 (#135 → #155)
Rise & fade · boys
106 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 2019 at #59 (5,739 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 100 for 17 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 17 yrs · run 2008–2024
  • Top 1,000: 44 yrs · run 1982–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 291
  • Highest: 1 in 291 boys born in 2013 were named Colton (0.34%)
  • Latest: 1 in 499 boys born in 2025 (0.20%)
  • Its best rank, #59 in 2019, was only 1 in 313 (0.32%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 38.5% of all boys named Colton (58,468) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#2,496 (1913)#3,197
1920s28#3,208 (1920)#4,028
1930s24#2,449 (1939)#3,381
1940s24#2,871 (1940)#3,222
1950s60#2,321 (1950)#3,138
1960s130#1,814 (1966)#2,382
1970s264#1,530 (1975)#1,838
1980s3,991#157 (1989)#756
1990s30,472#105 (1996)#120
2000s34,249#93 (2009)#123
2010s58,468#59 (2019)#67
2020s24,244#66 (2020)#88

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.

Colton in 1913

boys
#2,496
6 births · 1 in 85,428 boys

Top boys' names in 1913

  1. #1John29,329
  2. #2William23,538
  3. #3James20,832
  4. #4Robert15,684
  5. #5Joseph14,471
  6. #6George13,874
  7. #7Charles13,191
  8. #8Edward9,474
  9. #9Frank9,237
  10. #10Thomas7,096
  11. #2,496Colton6
More about 1913

boys

512,566 boys got a published name in 1913; 1 in 85,428 of them was named Colton, which outranked 23.5% of the 3,261 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Colton
  1. #2,273Wladyslaw7
  2. #2,273Woodruff7
  3. #2,273York7
  4. #2,496Colton6
  5. #2,496Acel6
  6. #2,496Ada6
  7. #2,496Addis6
  8. #2,821Abb5
  9. #2,821Abbott5
  10. #2,821Abney5

Tied with 324 names at #2,496; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,050Mathias#1,885 → #835
  2. ↑ 935Hymen#1,885 → #950
  3. ↑ 796Waldemar#1,746 → #950
  4. ↑ 751Rolf#1,746 → #995
  5. ↑ 689Domenico#1,619 → #930
Fallers
  1. ↓ 975Holland#970 → #1,945
  2. ↓ 885Cameron#918 → #1,803
  3. ↓ 868Larue#935 → #1,803
  4. ↓ 726Irene#854 → #1,580
  5. ↓ 688Hughie#892 → #1,580

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1913 →