Kolter

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 35 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
35
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
#600
up from #834
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

How Kolter has moved

US popularity rank, 2024–2025. Lower is more popular.
#531#717#903202420252025#600

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YearUS rank
2024#834
2025#600

Kolter by the numbers

Kolter was given to 35 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 49 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Kolter

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 Kolter. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Koltencoal settlement; a form of colton245 in the US (2017)
  • Kylerarcher; a form of kylie or kyle1,149 in the US (2017)
  • Koltoncoal settlement; a form of Colton679 in the US (2017)
  • Kooperbarrel maker; respelling of Cooper203 in the US (2017)
  • Konnerlover of hounds; a modern respelling of Connor180 in the US (2017)
  • Kellerdweller in a spring or well140 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Kolter

Names that are said the same way as Kolter, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Coltercolt herder; one who tends young horses142 in the US (2017)
  • Coulter25 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Kolter

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