Colter
Colter was given to 2,354 boys in 2025, #157 among boys’ names; 10,705 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,600 Americans named Colter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Colter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Colter?
#157 among boys’ names, 2025
Colter rose from #1,268 in 2015 to #157 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 1.4 per 1,000.
2,354 babies in 2025, the peak
Colter peaked in 2025, when 2,354 boys were given it, #157 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,649 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2,354 | #157 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 1,649 | #218 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,035 | #321 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 720 | #430 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 438 | #630 | 0.25 |
| 2020 | 221 | #972 | 0.13 |
| 2019 | 221 | #969 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,229 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 144 | #1,266 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,357 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 142 | #1,268 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 163 | #1,158 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 140 | #1,253 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 150 | #1,196 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 150 | #1,179 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 131 | #1,311 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 164 | #1,125 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,242 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 124 | #1,352 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,362 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 102 | #1,443 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,342 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,336 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 101 | #1,315 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 79 | #1,523 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 82 | #1,484 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 97 | #1,266 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 90 | #1,321 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,262 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 92 | #1,216 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 105 | #1,106 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,214 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 103 | #1,100 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 118 | #994 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 98 | #1,098 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,279 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,225 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,146 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,243 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,697 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 31 | #1,816 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 25 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 25 | #1,974 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,515 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,228 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,482 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Colter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Colter has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Colter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Colter, and how old are they?
10,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 10,705 Americans ever recorded as Colter. The median Colter alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,951 people named Colter (25 women and girls, 3,926 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,266 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 116 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,460 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Colter born?
The states with the most babies named Colter are Texas, Tennessee and Ohio, with 17% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 176 | #223 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 110 | #75 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 102 | #135 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 89 | #69 | 1.6× |
| California | 82 | #402 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 81 | #160 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 77 | #164 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 74 | #105 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 74 | #136 | 0.5× |
| Kentucky | 70 | #65 | 1.1× |
Where Colter is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Colter is most over-represented in Montana: since 1971 it was given 12.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Colter with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,490 babies since 1880, Colter is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 2,354 of their 2,865 babies (82%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Colter
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Colter and names like it
- Compare Colter and KolterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sColter peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Colter since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Colter.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Colter alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.