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Colton
Pronounced /koʊl.tən/
Rank in 2024
#98
Born in 2024
3,588
Peak year
2013 · #65
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,588 boys were named Colton, about 1 in every 478.
- It peaked in 2013 with 6,488 babies, ranked #65.
- It first shows up in the records in 1913.
- 148,509 boys have been named Colton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Colton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.8Millennials1981–96
- 2.0Gen Z1997–12
- 2.9Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 39 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 42 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 119 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 374 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 23,968 babies, 0.79 per 1,000. Gen Z: 61,993 babies, 1.97 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 61,974 babies, 2.85 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Old English cola (“coal”) + tun (“settlement”).
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /koʊl.tən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Colton, CC BY-SA 4.0.