Coleton
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 36 babies a year in the US.
Coleton by the numbers
Coleton was given to 36 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 150 babies in 1997, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Coleton
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Coleton. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Coltondark settlement; coal town5,261 in the US (2017)
- Colesoncoal-black; son of Cole; a form of Colson102 in the US (2017)
- Colstoncole's settlement; a place name used as a given name50 in the US (2017)
- Coleston12 in the US (2017)
- Coltendark settlement or coal town; a respelling of Colton358 in the US (2017)
- Colsoncoal-black; son of Cole321 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Coleton
Names that are said the same way as Coleton, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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