Colton

Colton meaning

Colton is an international boy's name of English origin (Old English place name).

Cola's farm or estate; Cola, a nickname from col, "coal"

Also used to mean: coal town, from the coal town

Colton is an English place name that became a surname and, in America, a first name. Several English villages share it, and their origins differ. The usual explanation joins the Old English personal name Cola with tūn, which Bosworth-Toller define as an enclosure, a farm or estate, and later a village or town; Cola itself was a nickname from col, "coal", perhaps for someone with dark hair, as in the Domesday spelling Coletun for Colton near Leeds. For at least one Yorkshire Colton, place-name scholars prefer col in its literal sense, giving "farm where charcoal was made". Name lists give "coal town".

Source: Bosworth-Toller, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1898, with Supplement 1921), s.v. tún; cól · entry tún; cól · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Bosworth-Toller, tún · Bosworth-Toller, cól · Wikipedia, Colton, Leeds (citing the English Place-Name Society)

Popularity abroad

• #103 United States, boys 2025 (down 5 from 98 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #679 England and Wales, boys 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Colton · Colten · Kolton

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