Fun Facts About the Name Kolton
- More than 17 thousand babies named Kolton: U.S. records list 17,163 babies given the name Kolton from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Kolton Mean?
Kolton is a variant spelling of the English name Colton, which began as a surname taken from places in England. The name is usually explained from Old English col, meaning "coal" or "charcoal," combined with tūn, meaning "town," "settlement," or "enclosure." Read literally, it means "charcoal town" or "coal settlement," probably describing a place where charcoal was made or stored. A second, less certain explanation derives some places called Colton from an Old English personal name, Cola, plus tūn, giving "Cola's settlement." Because the same place name arose in several different locations, both explanations may be true for different villages, and the exact origin of any single one is not always certain.
Kolton Name History & Origins
Colton is an English surname, and it comes from more than one place of that name. Villages called Colton exist in Norfolk, Staffordshire, West Yorkshire, and elsewhere in England, and a family taking its surname from any of them would have been called after that village. English surnames of this type became hereditary in the later Middle Ages, so Colton was in use as a family name well before it was used as a first name.
Turning surnames into given names is a long-standing English and American habit, and Colton began to appear as a first name in the United States in the 20th century. Kolton is a later American respelling of that given name, using an initial K. Spellings beginning with K have been widely used in American naming, and Kolton follows that pattern rather than reflecting a separate origin. Both spellings are pronounced the same way and share the same source.
How Popular is the Name Kolton?
Kolton recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2012. Its best rank was #379 in 2012.
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 | #594 | 489 | 0.0286% |
| 2024 | #529 | 561 | 0.0327% |
| 2023 | #518 | 569 | 0.0333% |
| 2022 | #507 | 586 | 0.0336% |
| 2021 | #511 | 578 | 0.0331% |
| 2020 | #444 | 671 | 0.0389% |
| 2019 | #434 | 705 | 0.0393% |
| 2018 | #423 | 727 | 0.0400% |
| 2017 | #448 | 686 | 0.0371% |
| 2016 | #491 | 619 | 0.0326% |
| 2015 | #415 | 752 | 0.0392% |
| 2014 | #408 | 759 | 0.0395% |
| 2013 | #381 | 789 | 0.0417% |
| 2012 | #379 | 796 | 0.0420% |
| 2011 | #404 | 706 | 0.0372% |
| 2010 | #414 | 678 | 0.0353% |
| 2009 | #468 | 582 | 0.0293% |
| 2008 | #479 | 581 | 0.0285% |
| 2007 | #585 | 437 | 0.0211% |
| 2006 | #637 | 366 | 0.0178% |
| 2005 | #625 | 355 | 0.0178% |
| 2004 | #639 | 329 | 0.0166% |
| 2003 | #615 | 339 | 0.0172% |
| 2002 | #571 | 385 | 0.0198% |
| 2001 | #613 | 315 | 0.0162% |
| 2000 | #611 | 314 | 0.0160% |
| 1999 | #582 | 335 | 0.0174% |
| 1998 | #608 | 302 | 0.0158% |
| 1997 | #593 | 299 | 0.0159% |
| 1996 | #555 | 334 | 0.0176% |
| 1995 | #613 | 281 | 0.0148% |
| 1994 | #733 | 206 | 0.0107% |
| 1993 | #805 | 173 | 0.0088% |
| 1992 | #838 | 159 | 0.0080% |
| 1991 | #970 | 121 | 0.0060% |
| 1990 | #1,079 | 98 | 0.0048% |
| 1989 | #1,191 | 81 | 0.0040% |
| 1988 | #1,587 | 46 | 0.0024% |
| 1987 | #3,025 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 1986 | #4,686 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1985 | #4,952 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1984 | #6,884 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1983 | #4,723 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 1982 | #5,339 | 7 | 0.0004% |
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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