Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from a place name meaning “Cola’s town,” Colton began to be used as a given name in the 1980s and was likely in some cases treated as an expanded form of Cole or Colt.
20062006: 3,003 births, rank #135
2007: 3,657 births, rank #118
2008: 4,550 births, rank #98
2009: 4,771 births, rank #93
2010: 5,321 births, rank #73
20112011: 5,601 births, rank #74
2012: 6,362 births, rank #65
2013: 6,490 births, rank #65
2014: 6,405 births, rank #65
2015: 6,318 births, rank #60
20162016: 5,624 births, rank #68
2017: 5,294 births, rank #70
2018: 5,314 births, rank #68
2019: 5,739 births, rank #59
2020: 5,025 births, rank #66
20212021: 4,566 births, rank #75
2022: 3,926 births, rank #91
2023: 3,707 births, rank #94
2024: 3,600 births, rank #98
20252025: 3,420 births, rank #103
Colton moved from #98 to #103 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2013, with 6,490 births.