Kolt
- #1,409 for boys in 2025, 129 births
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 202 births
- Debut · boys
- 16 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,074since 1982
Kolt over time
Rank among boys' names. Kolt has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,409 | 129 |
| 2024 | #1,256 | 157 |
| 2023 | #1,365 | 137 |
| 2022 | #1,032 | 214 |
| 2021 | #1,119 | 182 |
| 2020 | #1,023 | 202 |
| 2019 | #1,034 | 200 |
| 2018 | #1,079 | 183 |
| 2017 | #1,213 | 151 |
| 2016 | #1,413 | 124 |
| 2015 | #1,438 | 118 |
| 2014 | #1,432 | 116 |
| 2013 | #1,291 | 134 |
| 2012 | #1,514 | 106 |
| 2011 | #1,448 | 113 |
| 2010 | #1,383 | 121 |
| 2009 | #1,774 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,265 | 58 |
| 2007 | #2,564 | 48 |
| 2006 | #3,024 | 36 |
| 2005 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #6,138 | 12 |
| 2003 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #3,834 | 19 |
| 1998 | #3,597 | 20 |
| 1997 | #2,502 | 32 |
| 1996 | #2,183 | 38 |
| 1995 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #3,030 | 23 |
| 1993 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #3,636 | 16 |
| 1990 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #3,618 | 15 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #2,838 | 18 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #2,427 | 21 |
| 1984 | #2,824 | 16 |
| 1983 | #2,085 | 25 |
| 1982 | #2,831 | 16 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Kolt! It came in at #2,831, and was given to 16 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2000–2001, when fewer than 17 boys a year got the name.
Where Kolt is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#708 · 1 in 4,107
- Missouri#709 · 1 in 3,973
- Louisiana#775 · 1 in 3,826
- Washington#999 · 1 in 6,560
- Tennessee#1,040 · 1 in 7,354
Best ever in a state: #201 in Iowa, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #708 | 5 | 1 in 4,107 |
| Missouri | #709 | 7 | 1 in 3,973 |
| Louisiana | #775 | 5 | 1 in 3,826 |
| Washington | #999 | 5 | 1 in 6,560 |
| Tennessee | #1,040 | 5 | 1 in 7,354 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 9,910 |
| Texas | #1,347 | 14 | 1 in 12,504 |
| California | #2,203 | 6 | 1 in 29,246 |
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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 Kolt
- 386 spots since 2020 (#1,023 → #1,409)
- 29 spots since 2015 (#1,438 → #1,409)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2020 at #1,023 (202 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,159 boys born in 2022 were named Kolt (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,241 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,023 in 2020, was only 1 in 8,545 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.4% of all boys named Kolt (1,366) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 142 | #2,085 (1983) | #2,878 |
| 1990s | 226 | #2,102 (1995) | #3,387 |
| 2000s | 319 | #1,774 (2009) | #4,000 |
| 2010s | 1,366 | #1,034 (2019) | #1,325 |
| 2020s | 1,021 | #1,023 (2020) | #1,201 |
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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