Kolter
Kolter was given to 476 boys in 2025, #600 among boys’ names; 1,938 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Kolter and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 3 years old and half are between 2 and 11.
Kolter climbed 235 places in 2025, the #16 climb among the boys’ top 1,000.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kolter by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kolter?
#600 among boys’ names, 2025
Kolter rose from #2,791 in 2015 to #600 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.28 per 1,000.
476 babies in 2025, the peak
Kolter peaked in 2025, when 476 boys were given it, #600 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 297 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 476 | #600 | 0.28 |
| 2024 | 297 | #835 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 198 | #1,086 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 139 | #1,349 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 84 | #1,847 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,224 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,449 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,026 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 36 | #3,222 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,486 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 43 | #2,791 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,526 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,457 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,744 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,142 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,677 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 30 | #3,599 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,787 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,745 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 29 | #3,571 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,749 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,904 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,420 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,373 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,254 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #6,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,895 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,976 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,868 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,612 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,226 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kolter a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kolter has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kolter: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kolter, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,938 Americans ever recorded as Kolter. The median Kolter alive today is 3 years old; half are between 2 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 652 people named Kolter (8 women and girls, 644 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 74 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 316 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,530 |
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 Kolter born?
The states with the most babies named Kolter are Texas, Oklahoma and Ohio, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
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 Kolter with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kolter?
Kolter is a less common spelling of Colter: SSA has recorded 1,938 Kolter and 10,705 Colter since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 13,490 babies since 1880, Kolter is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 476 of their 2,865 babies (17%), again the second 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 Kolter
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 Kolter and names like it
- Compare Kolter and ColterBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sKolter peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kolter since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Kolter.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kolter alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.