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Kolbe vs Kolten

American parents have registered 5,929 Koltens since 1880, against 1,892 Kolbes. Kolten is still ahead, with 153 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kolbe against Kolten, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kolbe Kolten

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Kolten has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1987 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Kolbe had 110 and Kolten had 116.

Side by side

  Kolbe Kolten
Total US births 1,8925,929
Most in one year 110308
Babies in 2025 89153
Estimated living today 1,9005,900
Median age today 1413
Peak year 20012015
Best rank 1,287th boys771st boys
Rank in 2025 1,932nd1,281st
First recorded 19891987
Girls / boys 67 / 1,8250 / 5,929

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kolbe and Kolten.