Kolton

What Kolton means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #594 vs #3,256 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kolton?

US: Falling: down from #414 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2012, when 796 boys got the name (#379 that year). First in the US records in 1982.

How common

• About 1 in 3,493 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 45,323 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland 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 ME (1.82 per 1,000 boys), HI (1.71 per 1,000 boys), KY (1.56 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Kolton is #594 in the US and #3256 in England & Wales (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 Kolton 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
• Colten238 US
• Kolten153 US
• Kelton35 US
• Coltyn28 US
• Koltyn25 US
• Coltin14 US
• Koltin10 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 Kolton

Boys

• Braxton#172Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #172 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Tucker#181Editor’s note Steady in the US: #186 in 2015 and #181 in 2025
• Liam#1Form of William, meaning “will + helmet”^*
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Damian#109“to tame”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025

For a sister

• Genesis#66“creation, beginning, origin”^*
• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Juliet#274Editor’s note Down from #240 in 2015 to #274 in 2025 in the US
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies
• Adalyn#260Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kolton’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.