Collen vs Colton
American parents have registered 152,174 Coltons since 1880, against 1,173 Collens. Colton is still ahead, with 3,426 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Collen Colton
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 98 years in which either name was published, Colton for 83 years and Collen for 15 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1923–1925 Collen ahead
- 1938–1947 Colton ahead
- 1958–1960 Collen ahead
- 1961–2025 Colton ahead, apart from one short spell
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Collen | Colton | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,173 | 152,174 |
| Most in one year | 37 | 6,496 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 3,426 |
| Estimated living today | 1,100 | 150,000 |
| Median age today | 31 | 14 |
| Peak year | 1997 | 2013 |
| Best rank | 2,449th boys | 65th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 103rd |
| First recorded | 1918 | 1913 |
| Girls / boys | 512 / 661 | 209 / 151,965 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Collens alive today are over 31; half the Coltons are over 14. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Collen and Colton.