Kolt

Meaning: Young male horse; or coal town
Origin: Variant of Colt · Also a short form of Colton, which supplies the coal town interpretation (from Old English)

Boy's name · #1414 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave

Popularity over time

Kolt is near its high-water mark: it reached #1024 in 2020 and still ranked #1414 in 2025. About 3,100 boys have carried it since 1982.

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 19 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

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#1,767 in Canada (2024).

Kolt is the less common spelling of Colt — about 10% of babies given the name are written this way; Colt itself ranked #285 in 2025.

Similar names: Colt · Loki · Kole · Wolfgang · Kolbe · Kolten

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