Colt
Meaning
young horse
The story
Colt is the young horse, one syllable of pure western, and its record contains one of the sharpest datable jumps we track: about 140 in the 1970s became 2,100 in the 1980s, fifteen times over, the exact years a stuntman named Colt Seavers fell off buildings weekly on American television. Decade buckets point, they do not convict. The name then held between about 2,200 and 3,000 for two decades before the modern western wave, the one that lifted Stetson and Wilder, carried it to about 11,700 in the 2010s, with 8,600 so far this decade, every single one a boy. In our records the count runs about 27,900 boys to 11 girls. There is a firearms brand in the shadow, as with Remington, and the record cannot say which associations families carry. What it can say: the horse is young, and has been for forty years.
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Colt peaked in the 2020s.
When you meet Colt
Most people given the name Colt in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Colt deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Colt truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Colt fits with your family’s names and surname.
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