Colter
Colter stands at #157 nationally in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. Modern by the data's own clock (1971 is its first appearance), at 10,705 bearers so far.
Colter’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Colter, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Colter since 1971
Colter is at its all-time peak right now: #157 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Colter is most common
Colter is most common in Montana: 1.04% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. Wyoming (1.01%) and North Dakota (0.95%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Colter
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Callie
#175 in 2025
Charlie
#133 in 2025 · Teutonic
Callan
#190 in 2025
Carson
#124 in 2025
Camden
#205 in 2025
Callum
#118 in 2025 · Gaelic
Cora
#113 in 2025 · Greek
Cohen
#225 in 2025
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About Colter
Where does Colter rank right now?
Colter stands at #157 nationally in 2025, and more parents pick it every year. The full curve since 1971 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Colter?
The public-domain references we cite do not record a meaning for Colter, so this page does not invent one.
What names go with Colter?
Callie, Charlie and Callan sit nearest to Colter on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
Get Colter’s free Name Kit
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