Meaning not yet researched.
Colter: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 2,354 in 2025. Its best rank was #157 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Colter in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#157 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Colter: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 2,354 boys in 2025. Peak: #157 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 2,354 (2025).
In 2025, 2,354 US boys were named Colter, making it the 157th most common boys’ name of the year, up 61 places from #218 in 2024. That is 705 more than the 1,649 boys named Colter in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #157, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,354. For comparison, it was #1,268 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Colter in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 6 babies. In all, 10,705 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,417 babies named Colter.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,064 US boys were named Colter; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 2,354. In 2025 that was about 1 in 726 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Colter ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #10 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 19 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Kolter (1,938 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Coulter and Koulter are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Coulter (847), Koulter (16).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Colter in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 39 | #10 | #122 |
| North Dakota | 32 | #10 | — |
| South Dakota | 29 | #19 | — |
| Alaska | 16 | #35 | — |
| Wyoming | 11 | #35 | — |
| Idaho | 45 | #40 | #209 |
| Oregon | 62 | #51 | #504 |
| Iowa | 56 | #55 | — |
| West Virginia | 29 | #55 | — |
| Maine | 19 | #57 | — |
| Oklahoma | 61 | #64 | #648 |
| Kentucky | 70 | #65 | — |
| Arkansas | 43 | #69 | — |
| Missouri | 89 | #69 | — |
| Tennessee | 110 | #75 | — |
| Kansas | 46 | #76 | — |
| Nebraska | 31 | #78 | #321 |
| Utah | 59 | #81 | #382 |
| Wisconsin | 69 | #85 | — |
| Minnesota | 62 | #101 | — |
| Colorado | 66 | #104 | — |
| Washington | 74 | #105 | #869 |
| Vermont | 5 | #109 | — |
| Indiana | 70 | #112 | — |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #114 | — |
| South Carolina | 44 | #121 | — |
| Alabama | 42 | #133 | — |
| Ohio | 102 | #135 | — |
| Michigan | 74 | #136 | — |
| Arizona | 62 | #143 | #803 |
| Mississippi | 20 | #158 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 81 | #160 | — |
| North Carolina | 77 | #164 | — |
| Louisiana | 31 | #165 | — |
| Virginia | 52 | #175 | — |
| Georgia | 62 | #195 | — |
| New Mexico | 10 | #197 | — |
| Texas | 176 | #223 | #1,470 |
| Illinois | 51 | #231 | — |
| Maryland | 23 | #246 | — |
| Nevada | 11 | #277 | — |
| Florida | 62 | #316 | — |
| New York | 51 | #345 | — |
| Connecticut | 8 | #364 | — |
| California | 82 | #402 | #2,330 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #561 | — |
| New Jersey | 11 | #609 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 2,354 | #157 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,649 | #218 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,035 | #321 |
| 2022 | — | — | 720 | #430 |
| 2021 | — | — | 438 | #630 |
| 2020 | — | — | 221 | #972 |
| 2019 | — | — | 221 | #969 |
| 2018 | — | — | 151 | #1,229 |
| 2017 | — | — | 144 | #1,266 |
| 2016 | — | — | 131 | #1,357 |
| 2015 | — | — | 142 | #1,268 |
| 2014 | — | — | 163 | #1,158 |
| 2013 | — | — | 140 | #1,253 |
| 2012 | — | — | 150 | #1,196 |
| 2011 | — | — | 150 | #1,179 |
| 2010 | — | — | 131 | #1,311 |
| 2009 | — | — | 164 | #1,125 |
| 2008 | — | — | 140 | #1,242 |
| 2007 | — | — | 124 | #1,352 |
| 2006 | — | — | 119 | #1,362 |
| 2005 | — | — | 102 | #1,444 |
| 2004 | — | — | 109 | #1,344 |
| 2003 | — | — | 103 | #1,337 |
| 2002 | — | — | 101 | #1,318 |
| 2001 | — | — | 79 | #1,527 |
| 2000 | — | — | 82 | #1,488 |
| 1999 | — | — | 97 | #1,269 |
| 1998 | — | — | 90 | #1,324 |
| 1997 | — | — | 91 | #1,265 |
| 1996 | — | — | 92 | #1,218 |
| 1995 | — | — | 105 | #1,109 |
| 1994 | — | — | 89 | #1,218 |
| 1993 | — | — | 103 | #1,104 |
| 1992 | — | — | 118 | #997 |
| 1991 | — | — | 98 | #1,104 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,204 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,284 |
| 1988 | — | — | 69 | #1,228 |
| 1987 | — | — | 75 | #1,107 |
| 1986 | — | — | 60 | #1,246 |
| 1985 | — | — | 65 | #1,158 |
| 1984 | — | — | 63 | #1,147 |
| 1983 | — | — | 56 | #1,223 |
| 1982 | — | — | 56 | #1,244 |
| 1981 | — | — | 34 | #1,698 |
| 1980 | — | — | 31 | #1,816 |
| 1979 | — | — | 25 | #2,057 |
| 1978 | — | — | 25 | #1,974 |
| 1977 | — | — | 20 | #2,284 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,517 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,230 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,115 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,484 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).