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Kollins vs Kolt

American parents have registered 3,074 Kolts since 1880, against 1,133 Kollinses. But in 2025 it was Kollins that was commoner, 142 babies to 129.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Kollins 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 44 years in which either name was published, Kolt for 41 years and Kollins for 3 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kollins Kolt
Total US births 1,1333,074
Most in one year 165214
Babies in 2025 142129
Estimated living today 1,1003,000
Median age today 38
Peak year 20242022
Best rank 1,374th girls1,032nd boys
Rank in 2025 1,561st1,409th
First recorded 20101982
Girls / boys 1,091 / 420 / 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 Kolts alive today are over 8; half the Kollinses are over 3. 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: Kollins and Kolt.