How Many People Are Named Colten?
people named Colten are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 21,247 people in the US has this name
Based on 16,358 babies named Colten in Social Security records from 1978 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
757 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of COLTON.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Colten in English. Counting Colten and these spellings together, about 165,836 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Colten in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Colten alive today is about 18 years old, and 85% are under 30. Half of them were between 11 and 26 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Colten first appears in the records in 1978 and was given most often in 2009, to 757 babies. In 2025, 238 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1978 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Colten has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #386, in 2011. In 2025 it ranked #966.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #966 |
| Best rank | #386 (2011) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #511 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Colten alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Colten were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,605 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Colten was given 3.4 times as often in West Virginia, 3.1 times in Montana and 2.7 times in North Dakota.
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