Coulter
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 25 babies a year in the US.
Coulter by the numbers
Coulter was given to 25 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 27 babies in 2005, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Coulter
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Coulter. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Coltercolt herder; one who tends young horses142 in the US (2017)
- Coltendark settlement or coal town; a respelling of Colton358 in the US (2017)
- Colliercoal miner; one who deals in coal64 in the US (2017)
- Cutterone who cuts; occupational surname used as given name35 in the US (2017)
- Caulderstream or spring; a form of Calder14 in the US (2017)
- Courtez5 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Coulter
Names that are said the same way as Coulter, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Kolter35 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Coulter
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