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Kolsen vs Kolton

American parents have registered 17,169 Koltons since 1880, against 813 Kolsens. Kolton is still ahead, with 489 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kolsen against Kolton, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kolsen Kolton

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

Kolton has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Kolsen had 150 and Kolton had 489.

Side by side

  Kolsen Kolton
Total US births 81317,169
Most in one year 156796
Babies in 2025 150489
Estimated living today 81017,000
Median age today 313
Peak year 20242012
Best rank 1,262nd boys379th boys
Rank in 2025 1,297th594th
First recorded 20051982
Girls / boys 0 / 8130 / 17,169

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 Koltons alive today are over 13; half the Kolsens are over 3. That is 10 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: Kolsen and Kolton.