Colt
Below 5 births
2025 SSA
About Colt
Colt is the kind of unconventionally macho name that is so trendy right now, because of or in spite of its association with horses and guns. A rent study of voter names by political party found that more than 80 percent of the voters named Colt vote red.
Samuel Colt was the inventor and industrialist credited with popularizing the revolver.
Colt is a perfect jock name, associated both with Washington Redskins quarterback Colt McCoy and an entire football team, the Indianapolis Colts.
Colt is also given to girls.
Pronounced KOLT.
As of October 2026, Colt ranked #285 for boys in US births in 2025 and #10994 for girls in US births in 1985 SSA, peaked at #210 for boys in 2019 and #9262 for girls in 1983.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #339 | 979 | 509.7 |
| 2015 | #337 | 1,018 | 531.1 |
| 2016 | #337 | 1,033 | 544.3 |
| 2017 | #270 | 1,333 | 720.2 |
| 2018 | #236 | 1,628 | 896.4 |
| 2019 | #210 | 1,833 | 1,021.6 |
| 2020 | #221 | 1,686 | 976.8 |
| 2021 | #221 | 1,736 | 992.3 |
| 2022 | #240 | 1,461 | 836.8 |
| 2023 | #264 | 1,302 | 761.1 |
| 2024 | #276 | 1,224 | 710.4 |
| 2025 | #285 | 1,188 | 695.5 |
World rankings
Colt for boys
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Colt on lists
Famous Colts
- Colt AndersonBoy
American NFL football player
- Daniel "Colt" McCoyBoy
American NFL football player
- Colton James "Colt" BrennanBoy
American NFL football player
- Colt Daniel Hauser (b. 2010)Boy
son of actors Cole Hauser and Cynthia Daniel
- Colt Daniel Rich (b. 2011)Boy
son of American country singer,songwriter John Rich
- Colt Michael McCann (b. 2012)Boy
son of baseball player Brian McCann
Colt in pop culture
- The ColtBoy
gun on TV's "Supernatural"
- Indianapolis ColtsBoy
NFL football team
- Denny ColtBoy
from the movie "The Spirit"
- ColtBoy
character from "Attack on Titan"
- ColtBoy
middle child from the "3 Ninjas" movies
- coltBoy
,a young male horse
- coltBoy
,a type of revolver
- Colt Bennett (The RanchBoy
tv show)