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Kole vs Koltyn

American parents have registered 9,855 Koles since 1880, against 1,119 Koltyns. Kole is still ahead, with 165 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kole Koltyn

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

Kole has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1969 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Kole had 337 and Koltyn had 81.

Side by side

  Kole Koltyn
Total US births 9,8551,119
Most in one year 43381
Babies in 2025 16525
Estimated living today 9,7001,100
Median age today 1612
Peak year 20092012
Best rank 597th boys1,818th boys
Rank in 2025 1,244th4,139th
First recorded 19691994
Girls / boys 70 / 9,7855 / 1,114

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 Koles alive today are over 16; half the Koltyns are over 12. That is 4 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 Koltyn.