as a First Name
Mainly North American: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from any of various places in England so called. The place name is of varied origin: in most cases it derives from the Old English personal name Cola, a byname for a swarthy person (from col ‘charcoal’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, and so is a doublet of Colby.
| 2,447th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,187
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 73,331
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Colton per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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99.99%
0%
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0.13%
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30-54
22%
13-29
13-29
78%
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