Colt: name meaning, origin & popularity
- Meaning
- “young horse”
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- KOHLT · 1 syllable
- Used for
- Boys
Colt comes from the English word for a young male horse and has been adopted as a given name. It is a word-name rather than a traditional inherited personal name.
How popular is Colt?
Babies named Colt in 20241,224
2024 rank#276 boys
Peak year2019
Total US babies since 188026,684
Colt is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.
Names like Colt
Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.
Colt questions
What does the name Colt mean?
Colt means "young horse". It comes from English. Colt comes from the English word for a young male horse and has been adopted as a given name. It is a word-name rather than a traditional inherited personal name.
Is Colt a boy or girl name?
Colt is mainly a boy's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).
How popular is Colt?
1,224 US babies were named Colt in 2024. Its peak year was 2019.
How do you pronounce Colt?
Colt is usually pronounced KOHLT.
Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.