Colston Boy
How popular is Colston?
#1,932 boy name in 2025
80 baby boys were named Colston in the US in 2025, making it the 1932nd most popular boy name.
Colston popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,932 for boys (▲ 903 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 80 boys |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-4% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,804 in 2015, #2,346 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2010 (91 boys) |
| Highest rank | #1,687 in 2010 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Colston counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Colston family of names ranked #1,105 for boys in 2025 (#1,421 the year before), with 162 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Colston | 80 | 49% |
| Kolston | 31 | 19% |
| Kolsten | 14 | 9% |
| Colsten | 7 | 4% |
| Colstyn | 18 | 11% |
| Kolstyn | 12 | 7% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Colston is most popular
Babies named Colston per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (26 boys)
- Michigan: 0.1 per 1,000 (19 boys)
- Mississippi: 0.1 per 1,000 (5 boys)
- Ohio: 0.0 per 1,000 (10 boys)
- Georgia: 0.0 per 1,000 (6 boys)
Colston by decade
Boy names about as popular as Colston
Questions
- Is Colston a boy or girl name?
- Colston is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Colston were boys.
- How popular is the name Colston?
- 80 baby boys were named Colston in the US in 2025, making it the 1932nd most popular boy name.
- When was Colston most popular?
- Colston peaked in 2010, when 91 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,687 in 2010.
- How many people are named Colston?
- 1,247 babies have been named Colston in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,237 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Colston most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Colston was most common in Louisiana, at 0.3 of every 1,000 boys born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.