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Kol

Gender
Boy
Say it
KOHL
US rank, 2025
#4,248 for boys

Kol is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 4,248th for boys in the US (24 babies).

Where does Kol come from?

Perhaps a short form of Kolton or Nikolai, or Hebrew kol 'voice'

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

Kol is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 24 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kol in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2022, with 12 boys.

2013Busiest: 12 in 20222024
Kol in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20243#5,198
20230–
202212#1,999
20216#3,179
20205#3,502
20191#6,258
20180–
20171#6,312
20160–
20151#6,220
20140–
20132#6,127

How popular is Kol in the US?

Rank in 2025
4,248th among boys
Babies in 2025
24 about 1 in 71,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steady down 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 24 boys in the US were named Kol, making it the 4,248th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,805th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 50 boys. It first appears in the records in 2000.

2025 had fewer boys named Kol than any year since 2016.

Half of all the boys named Kol in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,217 boys in the US were given Kol or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #183, up from #4,248 for this spelling alone.

2000Busiest: 50 in 20212025
Kol in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202524#4,248
202435#3,333
202333#3,472
202238#3,149
202150#2,587
202043#2,805
201927#3,896
201827#3,887
201726#3,989
201616#5,551
201525#4,078
20149#8,124
201316#5,400
20127#9,703
201113#6,250
20105#12,224
20090–
200810#7,693
20070–
20065#12,048
20059#7,633
200412#6,132
20035#10,886
20028#7,636
20017#8,332
200010#6,309

Names like Kol

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

Other spellings of Kol

Names related to Kol

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kol: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kol, updated 20 October 2026.