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Collie vs Colton

American parents have registered 152,174 Coltons since 1880, against 1,531 Collies. Colton is still ahead, with 3,426 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Collie against Colton, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Collie 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 136 years in which either name was published, Collie for 73 years and Colton for 63 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Collie Colton
Total US births 1,531152,174
Most in one year 436,496
Babies in 2025 53,426
Estimated living today 420150,000
Median age today 6914
Peak year 19152013
Best rank 1,082nd boys65th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked103rd
First recorded 18811913
Girls / boys 359 / 1,172209 / 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 Collies alive today are over 69; half the Coltons are over 14. That is 55 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Collie and Colton.