as a Last Name
- 1,271
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Colt
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English colt ‘young ass’, later also ‘young horse’, ‘colt’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who looked after asses and horses, or a nickname for an obstinate or frisky person, from the same word. In northern England colt was a generic term for working horses and asses.
| 19,150th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,271
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Colt per capita
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