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 [ 1 syll. col(t), co-lt ] The boy name Colt is pronounced KOWLT KEY. Colt's origin is English and Old English, and its use, English. English and Old English origin: Literally from the ordinary word colt. The first name is derived from the name of the firearm. A variation of Colt is the English Kolt. In addition, Colt is a short form of the English Colton. Colt is also a variation of the English Colter. Colt is fairly popular as a baby name for boys. The name has been increasing in popularity since the 2000s. At the modest height of its usage in 2008, 0.023% of baby boys were given the name Colt. It ranked at #533 then. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Colt, the English Colton was the most commonly used in 2008. It was used 9 times more than Colt in that year. Baby names that sound like Colt include the English Kolt, the English Claud, the French Claude, the English and Scottish Clyde, the Scandinavian Keld, the Scandinavian Kjeld, the Arabic Khalid, the Basque Koldo, the Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish Claudio, the Romanian Claudiu, the Portuguese Cláudio, the Hebrew Kelita, and the Polish Klaudiusz. KEY: Pronunciation for Colt: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)"   |
