Colten

What Colten means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Colten yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 238 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Colten?

US: Falling: down from #549 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2011, when 750 boys got the name (#386 that year). First in the US records in 1978.

How common

• About 1 in 7,177 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in KY (0.54 per 1,000 boys), IN (0.47 per 1,000 boys), MI (0.45 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Colten is #965 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Colten were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Colton3,420 US · 53 E&W
• Kolton489 US · 6 E&W
• Kolten153 US
• Golden51 US · 4 E&W
• Coltyn28 US
• Koltyn25 US
• Colden24 US
• Coltin14 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Colten

Boys

• Chase#192Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2009, with 7,394 babies; 1,904 in 2025
• Drake#827“dragon”^*
• Preston#299Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #299 vs #914 in 2025
• Keegan#621“son of Aidan”^*
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*
• Brady#321“broad + eye”^*

For a sister

• Kendall#328“spring + valley”^*
• Kaylee#255Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #61 in 2015, #255 in 2025
• Kayleigh#799Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #324 in 2015, #799 in 2025
• Makenzie#700Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #210 in 2015, #700 in 2025
• Mckenzie#576Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025
• Payton#440“enclosure; settlement, town”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Colten’s. Rank is US 2025.