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[ 2 syll. col-ton, co-lt-on ] The boy name Colton is pronounced as KOWLTahN †. Colton is primarily used in the English language and its language of origin is Old English. The meaning of the name is coal town, Cola's town, Koli's town. From the words 'kol' meaning coal, black ; 'tun' meaning town, settlement, homestead. The first name is derived from the Old English surname, which is itself from a place name meaning 'coal town', or else 'Cola's town' or 'Koli's town'; Cola is an Old English name and Koli is its Old Norse equivalent. The name Coalton, the English Cole, the name Collton, the name Colston, the name Coltan, the English Colten, the English Coltin, the English Kelton, the English Kole, the English Kolt, the name Koltan, the English Kolten, and the English Koltin are variant forms of the name. Other forms of Colton include the English short form Colt and the English variant spelling Kolton. See also the related form, the English Colby. Colton is popular as a baby boy name. The name has been growing in popularity since the 1980s; prior to that, it was of very modest use only. Its usage peaked recently in 2008 with 0.209% of baby boys being given the name Colton. It was #98 in rank then. Among all boy names in its family, Colton was the 2nd most popular after Cole in 2008. It was 19% more widely used than Colton in that year. Baby names that sound like Colton include the name Coltan, the English Colten, the name Koltan, the English Kolten, the English Kolton, the English Clayten, the English Claytin, the English Clayton, the Welsh Cledwyn, the name Collton, the English Coltin, the English Kelton, the name Klayton, the English Koltin, the English Claudian, and the name Coalton.
† Pronunciation for Colton: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; T as in "tea (T.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"   |
