Fun Facts About the Name Colton
- More than 152 thousand babies named Colton: U.S. records list 152,138 babies given the name Colton from 1880 through 2025. Even 209 girls received the name Colton - about 1 girl for every 727 boys.
What Does the Name Colton Mean?
Colton is an English place name used as a personal name, and it means "Cola's settlement" or "Cola's farmstead." The second element is the Old English word tūn, meaning an enclosed piece of land, a farm, or a settlement - the ancestor of the modern word "town." The first element is generally explained as the Old English personal name Cola, a short or familiar name of uncertain further origin; it may be connected to col, "coal" or "charcoal," but that link is not certain. A less common explanation skips the personal name and reads the first element directly as col, giving the sense "charcoal town." Most place-name scholarship favors the personal-name reading, so "Cola's settlement" is the customary meaning, while "charcoal town" is a literal alternative rather than the standard interpretation.
Colton Name History & Origins
Colton began as the name of several places in England, including villages in Norfolk, Staffordshire, Cumbria, and North Yorkshire. The name was formed in the Old English period from a personal name plus tūn, and places of this form appear in medieval records, including the Domesday Book of 1086, where the spellings reflect the Old English Cola plus tūn. The various Coltons are separate settlements that happen to share the same construction, so they are not all branches of one family or one estate.
From these place names came the English surname Colton, a locative surname given to someone who lived in or came from a place called Colton. Surnames of this type spread as populations moved and as hereditary family names became established in the later Middle Ages. The given name Colton is a much later development: it is a surname adopted as a first name, part of a broad pattern in which English family names were reused as boys' names. That usage grew during the twentieth century, especially in the United States, where surname-style first names became common. Colton belongs to that tradition rather than to the older stock of names brought over from medieval England as given names.
How Popular is the Name Colton?
Colton recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2013. Colton entered the top 100 U.S. boy names in 2008.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,574 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #12,413 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #13,865 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #10,751 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2017 | #10,882 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2016 | #14,728 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2015 | #12,089 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2014 | #11,188 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2013 | #15,036 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2012 | #15,395 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2011 | #11,391 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2009 | #15,666 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2007 | #12,940 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #12,075 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2004 | #6,027 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 2003 | #14,255 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2002 | #13,979 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1998 | #14,639 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1997 | #11,105 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1996 | #6,795 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1995 | #10,750 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1993 | #8,193 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 1992 | #8,889 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1990 | #6,544 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1989 | #12,795 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1988 | #12,195 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #103 | 3,420 | 0.2002% |
| 2024 | #98 | 3,588 | 0.2092% |
| 2023 | #94 | 3,705 | 0.2169% |
| 2022 | #91 | 3,925 | 0.2250% |
| 2021 | #75 | 4,562 | 0.2609% |
| 2020 | #66 | 5,022 | 0.2911% |
| 2019 | #59 | 5,738 | 0.3200% |
| 2018 | #68 | 5,314 | 0.2927% |
| 2017 | #70 | 5,294 | 0.2861% |
| 2016 | #68 | 5,623 | 0.2964% |
| 2015 | #60 | 6,314 | 0.3295% |
| 2014 | #65 | 6,401 | 0.3333% |
| 2013 | #65 | 6,488 | 0.3431% |
| 2012 | #65 | 6,362 | 0.3354% |
| 2011 | #74 | 5,601 | 0.2949% |
| 2010 | #73 | 5,320 | 0.2773% |
| 2009 | #93 | 4,771 | 0.2406% |
| 2008 | #98 | 4,550 | 0.2230% |
| 2007 | #118 | 3,657 | 0.1762% |
| 2006 | #135 | 3,003 | 0.1461% |
| 2005 | #155 | 2,657 | 0.1330% |
| 2004 | #135 | 2,955 | 0.1489% |
| 2003 | #135 | 2,953 | 0.1495% |
| 2002 | #128 | 3,047 | 0.1569% |
| 2001 | #118 | 3,246 | 0.1671% |
| 2000 | #110 | 3,410 | 0.1736% |
| 1999 | #109 | 3,288 | 0.1712% |
| 1998 | #106 | 3,573 | 0.1869% |
| 1997 | #108 | 3,600 | 0.1910% |
| 1996 | #105 | 3,788 | 0.2000% |
| 1995 | #105 | 3,587 | 0.1884% |
| 1994 | #121 | 2,857 | 0.1479% |
| 1993 | #126 | 2,750 | 0.1402% |
| 1992 | #133 | 2,548 | 0.1276% |
| 1991 | #144 | 2,246 | 0.1112% |
| 1990 | #139 | 2,235 | 0.1088% |
| 1989 | #157 | 1,925 | 0.0962% |
| 1988 | #268 | 880 | 0.0460% |
| 1987 | #494 | 324 | 0.0174% |
| 1986 | #577 | 236 | 0.0128% |
| 1985 | #674 | 173 | 0.0094% |
| 1984 | #759 | 130 | 0.0072% |
| 1983 | #805 | 118 | 0.0066% |
| 1982 | #802 | 122 | 0.0067% |
| 1981 | #1,339 | 49 | 0.0027% |
| 1980 | #1,702 | 34 | 0.0019% |
| 1979 | #1,718 | 33 | 0.0019% |
| 1978 | #1,928 | 26 | 0.0016% |
| 1977 | #1,750 | 30 | 0.0018% |
| 1976 | #1,681 | 31 | 0.0020% |
| 1975 | #1,534 | 34 | 0.0022% |
| 1974 | #1,758 | 27 | 0.0017% |
| 1973 | #1,786 | 25 | 0.0016% |
| 1972 | #1,878 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 1971 | #2,298 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 1970 | #2,135 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1969 | #2,152 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1968 | #2,044 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 1966 | #1,828 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 1965 | #2,197 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 1964 | #2,567 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1963 | #2,896 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1962 | #2,538 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1961 | #2,076 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 1960 | #3,396 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1959 | #3,082 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1958 | #3,613 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1957 | #2,864 | 9 | 0.0004% |
| 1956 | #3,013 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1954 | #3,515 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1953 | #3,913 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1951 | #3,414 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1950 | #2,337 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1947 | #3,435 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1944 | #3,173 | 6 | 0.0004% |
| 1943 | #3,637 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1940 | #2,923 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1939 | #2,487 | 9 | 0.0008% |
| 1938 | #3,623 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1932 | #3,876 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1931 | #3,874 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1927 | #4,315 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1926 | #4,324 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1925 | #4,326 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1921 | #4,467 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1920 | #3,268 | 8 | 0.0008% |
| 1916 | #4,030 | 5 | 0.0006% |
| 1913 | #2,551 | 6 | 0.0012% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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