Colter

Where Colter comes from

Colter hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1971
    First appearance
    #4,375 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Colter Bean born
    American baseball player
  3. 1995
    Colter Wall born
    Canadian singer-songwriter
  4. 2025
    Peak, #157
    2,354 babies named Colter — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Colter Wall · Canadian singer-songwriter, born 1995
  • Colter Bean · American baseball player, born 1977

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.