Colter

What Colter means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Colter yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #157 vs #1,466 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Colter?

US: Rising: up from #1266 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 2,354 boys got the name (#157 that year). First in the US records in 1971.

How common

• About 1 in 726 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 15,108 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (10.36 per 1,000 boys), WY (10.09 per 1,000 boys), ND (9.54 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Colter is #157 in the US and #1466 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Colter were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kolter476 US
• Calder94 US · 3 E&W
• Coulter35 US
• Koulter11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Colter

Boys

• Sonny#298Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #822 in 2015, #298 in 2025
• Stetson#136“site in the Parish of South Brent”^*
• Shiloh#278Editor’s note Used for both: 53% of US babies named Shiloh in 2025 were boys
• Nico#174Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Baker#217From a surname for “a baker, or owner of a communal oven”^*
• Ismael#263Form of Ishmael, meaning “God hears, God will hear”^*

For a sister

• Alora#195“my dream”^*
• Ruth#173Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1920, with 26,102 babies; 1,781 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• Stevie#203Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #978 in 2015, #203 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Rosie#283Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #775 in 2015, #283 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Colter’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.