Kolter
#600 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kolter has been given to 1,938 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #600 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 476 recorded.
Babies named Kolter, 2025
1 in 6,960
Kolter over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kolter?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 6,960
- 476 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 3,590
- 0.03% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #600
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 4,829 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kolter sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 4,829 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kolter. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kolters were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kolter was born before 2023 — so the typical Kolter is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,938
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.8% of all recorded uses (1,256).
Is Kolter rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +235
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,624
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,191
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 11.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (476)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.1% average annual change
Spellings of Kolter
Kolter is not the most common spelling — Walter is, with 77.1% against Kolter's 0.24%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kolter is used
Across 2016–2025, Kolter was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 1,961 boys, against 1 in 13,145 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Dakota1 in 1,961
- 2Oklahoma1 in 2,174
- 3Iowa1 in 2,857
- 4Nebraska1 in 2,857
- 5Utah1 in 3,030
- 6Idaho1 in 3,226
- 7North Dakota1 in 3,571
- 8Kansas1 in 3,846
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Kolter around the world
Where Kolter ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2021–2024#1,011in 2024
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Kolter by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kolter
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kolter
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.