Colt Boy
How popular is Colt?
#285 boy name in 2025
1,188 baby boys were named Colt in the US in 2025, making it the 285th most popular boy name.
Colt popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #285 for boys (▼ 9 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,188 boys |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+17% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #338 in 2015, #221 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2019 (1,833 boys) |
| Highest rank | #210 in 2019 |
| First recorded | 1957 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 100% boys, 0% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.9% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Colt counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Colt family of names ranked #268 for boys in 2025 (#262 the year before), with 1,317 babies in all.
| Spelling | Boys in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Colt | 1,188 | 90% |
| Kolt | 129 | 10% |
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 Colt is most popular
Babies named Colt per 1,000 boys born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 4.0 per 1,000 (132 boys)
- Montana: 3.5 per 1,000 (61 boys)
- Wyoming: 3.3 per 1,000 (19 boys)
- South Dakota: 3.0 per 1,000 (55 boys)
- Iowa: 2.5 per 1,000 (172 boys)
Colt by decade
| Decade | Baby boys | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 25 | #2,641 |
| 1960s | 78 | #2,083 |
| 1970s | 141 | #2,356 |
| 1980s | 2,117 | #442 |
| 1990s | 2,218 | #652 |
| 2000s | 3,031 | #369 |
| 2010s | 11,656 | #210 |
| 2020s | 8,603 | #221 |
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Questions
- Is Colt a boy or girl name?
- Colt is mostly a boy name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Colt were boys.
- How popular is the name Colt?
- 1,188 baby boys were named Colt in the US in 2025, making it the 285th most popular boy name.
- When was Colt most popular?
- Colt peaked in 2019, when 1,833 boys were given the name. Its highest rank was #210 in 2019.
- How many people are named Colt?
- 27,880 babies have been named Colt in the US since 1880. We estimate about 27,522 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Colt most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Colt was most common in West Virginia, at 4.0 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.