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Koleta vs Kolt

American parents have registered 3,074 Kolts since 1880, against 19 Koletas. Kolt is still ahead, with 129 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Koleta against Kolt, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Koleta Kolt

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 46 years in which either name was published, Kolt for 44 years and Koleta for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Koleta Kolt
Total US births 193,074
Most in one year 10214
Babies in 2025 under 5129
Estimated living today 43,000
Median age today 918
Peak year 19342022
Best rank 2,741st girls1,032nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,409th
First recorded 19331982
Girls / boys 19 / 00 / 3,074

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 Koletas alive today are over 91; half the Kolts are over 8. That is 83 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: Koleta and Kolt.