Colton
Colton reached its high-water mark in 2013 at number 65, and has been recorded 152,174 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 103rd. About 150,000 Coltons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Colton boys named Colton
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 152,174
- Estimated living today
- 150,000
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2013
- Best rank
- 65th
- Rank in 2025
- 103rd
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 209 / 151,965
How old the living Coltons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 152,174 babies given the name since 1913, about 150,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 91,000 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English cola (“coal”) + tun (“settlement”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Coltons
- Colton Haynes (born 1986)American actor and model
- Colton Parayko (born 1993)Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Colton Ford (1962–2025)American singer and pornographic film actor
- Colton Herta (born 2000)American racing driver
- Colton Iverson (born 1989)American basketball player
- Colton Dunn (born 1977)American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
- Colton Dixon (born 1991)American singer-songwriter and musician
People named Colton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Colton is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Colton is most concentrated in Alaska (2.5×), Utah (2.5×), Idaho (2.2×), Nevada (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2013
The most popular boys’ names the year Colton peaked:
Colton elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Colton | 684 | 561st |
| Scotland boys | Colton | 237 | 189th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Colton | 139 | 142nd |
| Ireland boys | Colton | 78 | 364th |
| France boys | Colton | 10 | 5,778th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Colton among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Colton | 5 | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Colton against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.