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How popular is “Colton” in the USA?

Number of people named “Colton” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Colton” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Colton” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Colton” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Colton” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Colton” by birth year

This chart shows how “Colton” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1913 6 0.000005277 6 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1920 8 0.000003536 8 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1925 5 0.000002143 5 -100%
1926 5 0.000002178 5 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1938 5 0.00000226 5 -100%
1939 9 0.000004085 9 -100%
1940 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1943 5 0.000001771 5 -100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 -100%
1947 6 0.000001666 6 -100%
1950 11 0.00000314 11 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1953 5 0.000001297 5 -100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 -100%
1956 8 0.00000194 8 -100%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 -100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 -100%
1959 8 0.000001924 8 -100%
1960 7 0.000001685 7 -100%
1961 16 0.000003863 16 -100%
1962 11 0.000002726 11 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1964 11 0.00000283 11 -100%
1965 14 0.000003862 14 -100%
1966 18 0.000005179 18 -100%
1967 12 0.000003535 12 -100%
1968 16 0.000004736 16 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 18 0.000004991 18 -100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 -100%
1972 23 0.000007318 23 -100%
1973 25 0.000008287 25 -100%
1974 27 0.000008882 27 -100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 -100%
1976 31 0.000010217 31 -100%
1977 30 0.000009444 30 -100%
1978 26 0.000008192 26 -100%
1979 33 0.000009919 33 -100%
1980 34 0.000009871 34 -100%
1981 49 0.000014164 49 -100%
1982 122 0.000034778 122 -100%
1983 118 0.000034071 118 -100%
1984 130 0.000037263 130 -100%
1985 173 0.000048471 173 -100%
1986 236 0.000066347 236 -100%
1987 324 0.00008986 324 -100%
1988 885 0.00023951 5 880 -99%
1989 1930 0.000502023 5 1925 -99%
1990 2248 0.000568757 13 2235 -99%
1991 2246 0.000576597 2246 -100%
1992 2557 0.000665665 9 2548 -99%
1993 2760 0.000732041 10 2750 -99%
1994 2857 0.000768496 2857 -100%
1995 3594 0.000981389 7 3587 -100%
1996 3801 0.001042171 13 3788 -99%
1997 3607 0.000994829 7 3600 -100%
1998 3578 0.000972757 5 3573 -100%
1999 3288 0.000890124 3288 -100%
2000 3410 0.000902139 3410 -100%
2001 3246 0.000867128 3246 -100%
2002 3053 0.000816683 6 3047 -100%
2003 2959 0.000778209 6 2953 -100%
2004 2975 0.000778608 20 2955 -99%
2005 2665 0.000693136 8 2657 -99%
2006 3003 0.000759064 3003 -100%
2007 3665 0.000916781 8 3657 -100%
2008 4550 0.001157565 4550 -100%
2009 4777 0.001250466 6 4771 -100%
2010 5320 0.001439496 5320 -100%
2011 5610 0.001533712 9 5601 -100%
2012 6368 0.001741143 6 6362 -100%
2013 6494 0.001781293 6 6488 -100%
2014 6410 0.001729452 9 6401 -100%
2015 6322 0.001708228 8 6314 -100%
2016 5629 0.001534332 6 5623 -100%
2017 5303 0.001482861 9 5294 -100%
2018 5323 0.001513981 9 5314 -100%
2019 5738 0.001653158 5738 -100%
2020 5022 0.001503333 5022 -100%
2021 4568 0.001348308 6 4562 -100%
2022 3925 0.001160167 3925 -100%
2023 3712 0.001121045 7 3705 -100%
2024 3588 0.001077963 3588 -100%

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