Cutler
Cutler was given to 39 boys in 2025, #3,096 among boys’ names; 1,042 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Cutler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cutler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cutler mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cutler is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
Occupational surname from cutler.
/ˈkʌtlɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cutler?
#3,096 among boys’ names, 2025
Cutler fell from #3,037 in 2015 to #3,096 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 19.8 to 22.8 per million.
66 babies in 2014, the peak
Cutler peaked in 2014, when 66 boys were given it, #2,098 among boys’ names. The 39 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | #3,096 | 22.8 |
| 2024 | 44 | #2,882 | 25.5 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,361 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,013 | 23.5 |
| 2021 | 39 | #3,083 | 22.3 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,082 | 21.4 |
| 2019 | 40 | #2,999 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,180 | 19.8 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,848 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,117 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,037 | 19.8 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,098 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,255 | 30.1 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,499 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,861 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 33 | #3,322 | 17.2 |
| 2009 | 49 | #2,568 | 24.7 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,169 | 17.6 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,260 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,532 | 14.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,075 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,629 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,079 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,740 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,866 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,790 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,808 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,927 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,475 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 15 | #4,213 | 7.9 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,566 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #5,160 | 5.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,417 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,139 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,434 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,579 | 3.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,733 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cutler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cutler has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cutler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cutler, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,042 Americans ever recorded as Cutler. The median Cutler alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 795 people named Cutler (11 women and girls, 784 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 73 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 409 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 547 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,173 babies since 1880, Cutler is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 39 babies (100%), 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 Cutler
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 Cutler and names like it
- Compare Cutler and KutlerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sCutler peaked in 2014.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cutler since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cutler: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Cutler.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Cutler alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.