Colten
Colten is ranked 895th among boys in 2024 (262 births). Its best rank was 386th, in 2011.
- Rank in 2024
- #895up 29 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 2620.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 2009757 births
- Best rank
- #386in 2011
- Since 1978
- 16,116people given the name
The story in the numbers
16,116 boys have been named Colten in the United States since 1978, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2009, with 757 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 474 → 895).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 34%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 2009, its biggest year
Colten was the 395th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2009 were Jacob, Ethan, Michael, Alexander and William. See all of 2009.
Names that rose and fell with Colten
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Raycepeak 2012
- Kollinpeak 2009
- Khristianpeak 2013
- Corbenpeak 2007
- Keatonpeak 2007
- Aleczanderpeak 2013
- Geovannipeak 2008
- Keeganpeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.