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Coalton

Gender
Boy
Say it
KOHL-tun
Origin
English

Coalton is a boys' name of English origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Coalton come from?

English: variant of Colton, an English place name and surname

Is Coalton a girl's or a boy's name?

Coalton is a boys' name.

How popular is Coalton in the US?

No boys in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the boys named Coalton in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

1994Busiest: 12 in 20072017
Coalton in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20177#9,691
20166#10,739
20155#12,080
20146#10,711
20137#9,650
201212#6,620
20117#9,593
20100–
20096#10,989
20087#9,864
200712#6,618
20065#12,048
20058#8,292
20045#11,348
20030–
20026#9,385
20016#9,236
20008#7,409
19996#8,697
19986#8,472
19978#6,612
19966#7,964
19950–
19946#7,764

Nicknames for Coalton

Names like Coalton

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Coalton: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/coalton, updated 20 October 2026.