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How popular is the name Colton?
Births per year, rank history and how many Coltons are alive today.
Colton (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 679th in 2025 with 53 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2022, when 67 babies were given the name, the 561st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 827 in 2023 before climbing back to the 679th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Colton you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Coltons born in England and Wales are between 4 and 14, and there are at least 750 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Colton - on average, only one in every 404 such rooms contains a Colton.
How many babies are named Colton each year?
Where does Colton rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Colton most popular?
Colton peaked in 2022, when 67 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Colton?
At least 750 people named Colton born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Colton?
Most living Coltons are between 4 and 14; the most common age is about 5.
Is Colton becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.