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Kole vs Kolin

American parents have registered 9,855 Koles since 1880, against 1,945 Kolins. Kole is still ahead, with 165 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kole against Kolin, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kole Kolin

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 62 years in which either name was published, Kole for 48 years and Kolin for 14 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Kole Kolin
Total US births 9,8551,945
Most in one year 43379
Babies in 2025 16518
Estimated living today 9,7001,900
Median age today 1621
Peak year 20092003
Best rank 597th boys1,591st boys
Rank in 2025 1,244th5,208th
First recorded 19691955
Girls / boys 70 / 9,7850 / 1,945

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 Kolins alive today are over 21; half the Koles are over 16. That is 5 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: Kole and Kolin.