# Colson (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/colson/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,729 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,729 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 139, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 178 | 1,057 |
| 2012 | 145 | 1,222 |
| 2013 | 153 | 1,175 |
| 2014 | 145 | 1,246 |
| 2015 | 173 | 1,111 |
| 2016 | 188 | 1,050 |
| 2017 | 323 | 738 |
| 2018 | 409 | 639 |
| 2019 | 657 | 455 |
| 2020 | 902 | 351 |
| 2021 | 1,025 | 323 |
| 2022 | 1,059 | 317 |
| 2023 | 950 | 345 |
| 2024 | 949 | 355 |
| 2025 | 1,099 | 311 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,259 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2020 | 8 | 2,404 |
| 2021 | 22 | 1,218 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,104 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 25 | 1,132 |
| 2025 | 20 | 1,359 |

## People named Colson

- Machine Gun Kelly, American musician (born 1990)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.