Kole
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 99.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2010 · 428 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,785since 1969
Kole over time
Rank among boys' names. Kole has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | — | #1,196 | 171 | |
| 2023 | — | #971 | 226 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #1,022 | 217 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 | #858 | 272 |
| 2020 | — | #853 | 267 | |
| 2019 | — | #815 | 279 | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #771 | 301 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #758 | 310 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #798 | 293 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #761 | 313 |
| 2014 | — | #795 | 288 | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #722 | 323 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #714 | 331 |
| 2011 | — | #669 | 353 | |
| 2010 | — | #586 | 428 | |
| 2009 | — | #597 | 433 | |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #665 | 363 |
| 2007 | — | #635 | 382 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #654 | 352 |
| 2005 | — | #601 | 376 | |
| 2004 | — | #632 | 335 | |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #634 | 323 |
| 2002 | — | #612 | 327 | |
| 2001 | — | #646 | 289 | |
| 2000 | — | #686 | 258 | |
| 1999 | — | #668 | 255 | |
| 1998 | — | #749 | 215 | |
| 1997 | — | #743 | 202 | |
| 1996 | — | #882 | 155 | |
| 1995 | — | #857 | 160 | |
| 1994 | — | #935 | 138 | |
| 1993 | — | #965 | 124 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,068 | 105 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,382 | 67 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,516 | 56 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,154 | 32 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,768 | 39 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,896 | 33 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,837 | 33 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,698 | 36 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,581 | 38 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,787 | 31 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,341 | 21 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,153 | 9 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,357 | 12 | |
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| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #2,946 | 12 | |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,991 | 11 | |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kole! It came in at #4,404, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kole is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Nebraska#293 · 1 in 1,961
- Kansas#323 · 1 in 2,147
- Minnesota#344 · 1 in 3,157
- Utah#415 · 1 in 3,156
- Wisconsin#483 · 1 in 4,880
Best ever in a state: #140 in South Dakota, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nebraska | #293 | 5 | 1 in 1,961 |
| Kansas | #323 | 7 | 1 in 2,147 |
| Minnesota | #344 | 9 | 1 in 3,157 |
| Utah | #415 | 6 | 1 in 3,156 |
| Wisconsin | #483 | 6 | 1 in 4,880 |
| Indiana | #518 | 7 | 1 in 5,373 |
| Ohio | #531 | 11 | 1 in 6,393 |
| Missouri | #539 | 6 | 1 in 5,749 |
| Michigan | #601 | 9 | 1 in 6,621 |
| Washington | #647 | 5 | 1 in 6,735 |
| Illinois | #830 | 8 | 1 in 10,117 |
| Texas | #984 | 11 | 1 in 14,168 |
| Florida | #1,154 | 5 | 1 in 16,978 |
| California | #1,228 | 11 | 1 in 23,050 |
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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 Kole
- 48 spots since 2024 (#1,196 → #1,244)
- 391 spots since 2020 (#853 → #1,244)
- 483 spots since 2015 (#761 → #1,244)
- Biggest jump: 139 spots in 1997 (#882 → #743)
- Biggest drop: 225 spots in 2024 (#971 → #1,196)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 2010 at #586 (428 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1993–2021
- Highest: 1 in 4,483 boys born in 2010 were named Kole (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.1% of all boys named Kole (3,438) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,404 (1969) | #4,404 |
| 1970s | 51 | #2,946 (1974) | #4,049 |
| 1980s | 282 | #1,581 (1984) | #2,305 |
| 1990s | 1,477 | #668 (1999) | #977 |
| 2000s | 3,438 | #597 (2009) | #636 |
| 2010s | 3,219 | #586 (2010) | #739 |
| 2020s | 1,313 | #853 (2020) | #1,024 |
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.
Kole in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 12,221 of them was named Kole, which outranked 91.6% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.