Coltin
Masculine · “Cola's farmstead”
Colton is an English place name meaning Cola's farmstead, and Cola was a real Anglo-Saxon personal name — probably a nickname from col, charcoal, given for dark hair or complexion. Coltin is the American respelling, and its peak is 2001, in the middle of the -ton ending's modern run.
How old is the name Coltin?
Coltin first appears in US birth records in 1987 — 38 years ago. The typical Coltin alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,500 people named Coltin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Coltin most popular?
Coltin peaked in 2001, reaching #1160 nationally. Today it ranks #6143, 4,983 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cola tun to Coltin
The story of Coltin
There are Coltons in Staffordshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Cumbria and elsewhere, each producing its own family, so the surname has many independent origins. It crossed to America and stayed a surname until the twentieth century. Its rise as a given name is recent and steep: Colton entered the American top thousand in the 1980s, the top hundred by 2003 and the top forty by 2013. The -ton and -en endings drove that whole cohort — Colton, Easton, Payton, Braxton — and Coltin belongs to the respelling wave that always follows.
Meaningscholars disagree
Cola's farmstead
Old English tun, 'farmstead, settlement', is certain. The first element is generally read as the personal name Cola, which is itself thought to come from col, 'coal, charcoal' — a nickname for someone dark. Some Coltons in England may instead take their first element from the word directly, giving a place where charcoal was made. Both readings are standard and the difference is small.
How the name formed
- Cola tun
- Colton
- Coltin
Related forms: Colton · Coltyn
Pronouncing Coltin
KOHL-tun
Two syllables, stress on the first, with the ending reduced to a schwa. Identical to Colton; the i and o spellings sound the same in the unstressed position.
Nicknames for Coltin
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1987
- Most boys named
- 2012126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1160reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- 0.0%14 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Coltin in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Colton in English — spelling variant
- Coltyn in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Pennsylvania.
Coltins among us
people named Coltin are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 122,005 born in 2025 was named Coltin
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Coltin
- #6143
- Coltin on the 2025 chart
- #851
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Coltin went to 14 boys in 2025, but Coltyn, Koltyn and Koltin are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 77, which makes it the 851st most-given boys’ name of the year — 5,292 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 122,005 for Coltin itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shamus test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Coltin's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shamus climbed just as high around 1975, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shamus's path sketches the road Coltin is walking now.
Coltin sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Coltin beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Coltin in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Colt and Cole are both usable short forms already in independent use.
- The place-name elements behind it are genuinely Old English.
- The pronunciation is obvious from the spelling.
- Colton is far the more common spelling and hers will be written that way.
- It is easily heard as Colton, Dalton or Holton.
- The -ton fashion dates the name closely to the 1995-2020 window.
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Frequently asked
- How many Coltins are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,500 people named Coltin are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Coltin?
- Coltin is one of 4 recorded spellings. Coltyn is the more common one — 28 births in 2025 against 14 for Coltin.
- How popular is the name Coltin in 2025?
- Coltin ranks #6143 among US boy names in 2025, with 14 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Coltin?
- About 1 in every 122,005 US boys born in 2025 was named Coltin — 14 in all.
- Will my child share the name Coltin with classmates?
- Coltin will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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