Meaning not yet researched.
Cutter: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,632 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,632 in 2003; #2,685 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Cutter in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,685 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #1,632.
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Cutter: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,632 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 77 (2003).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Cutter, making it the 2,685th most common boys’ name of the year, up 544 places from #3,229 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 37 boys named Cutter in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,632, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 77. For comparison, it was #2,071 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Cutter in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 1,682 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 638 babies named Cutter.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 376 US boys were named Cutter; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 51. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Cutter ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #404 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kutter and Cotter 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kutter (609), Cotter (51).
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 Cutter 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 11 | #404 | #724 |
| Kansas | 5 | #612 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #1,678 | #884 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,685 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,229 |
| 2023 | — | — | 51 | #2,587 |
| 2022 | — | — | 28 | #3,907 |
| 2021 | — | — | 42 | #2,928 |
| 2020 | — | — | 34 | #3,285 |
| 2019 | — | — | 41 | #2,953 |
| 2018 | — | — | 26 | #4,011 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,258 |
| 2016 | — | — | 34 | #3,305 |
| 2015 | — | — | 68 | #2,071 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,588 |
| 2013 | — | — | 39 | #2,902 |
| 2012 | — | — | 60 | #2,186 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,207 |
| 2010 | — | — | 54 | #2,360 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,172 |
| 2008 | — | — | 58 | #2,272 |
| 2007 | — | — | 64 | #2,122 |
| 2006 | — | — | 66 | #2,018 |
| 2005 | — | — | 75 | #1,758 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,764 |
| 2003 | — | — | 77 | #1,632 |
| 2002 | — | — | 60 | #1,872 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,893 |
| 2000 | — | — | 47 | #2,145 |
| 1999 | — | — | 45 | #2,106 |
| 1998 | — | — | 62 | #1,669 |
| 1997 | — | — | 28 | #2,765 |
| 1996 | — | — | 30 | #2,547 |
| 1995 | — | — | 37 | #2,182 |
| 1994 | — | — | 21 | #3,245 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,765 |
| 1992 | — | — | 16 | #3,784 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,491 |
| 1990 | — | — | 10 | #5,058 |
| 1989 | — | — | 15 | #3,653 |
| 1988 | — | — | 14 | #3,554 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,227 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,089 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,789 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,432 |
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).