Kolter

#599 for boys in 2025, 476 births

Peak · boys
2025 · 476 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,938
since 1987

Kolter over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Kolter has never cracked the top 500 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201987boysat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#599476
2024#834297
2023#1,084198
2022#1,347139
2021#1,84184
2020#2,21262
2019#2,42155
2018#2,99439
2017#3,19336
2016#3,44132
2015#2,76643
2014#2,51649
2013#3,40531
2012#2,71644
2011#3,11436
2010#3,63329
2009#3,55130
2008#3,74428
2007#3,68728
2006#3,52429
2005#5,57814
2004#4,79317
2003#5,27114
2002#7,0559
2001#6,01311
2000#9,1126
1999#6,5309
1998#8,4796
1997#5,64210
1996#6,4968
1995#6,9927
1994#4,80312
1993#6,2288
1992#4,11414
1991#5,9428
1990#8,1175
1989#6,2297
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1987#4,9688
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First appearance
1987

The first year at least five boys were named Kolter! It came in at #4,968, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1988, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Kolter
Momentum · boys
Rising
  • 235 spots since 2024 (#834#599)
  • 1,613 spots since 2020 (#2,212#599)
  • 2,167 spots since 2015 (#2,766#599)
  • Biggest jump: 250 spots in 2024 (#1,084#834)
Rise & fade · boys
38 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1987
  • Peaked 2025 at #599 (476 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
Share of babies · boys
1 in 3,588
  • Highest: 1 in 3,588 boys born in 2025 were named Kolter (0.03%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 64.8% of all boys named Kolter (1,256) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s15#4,968 (1987)#5,599
1990s87#4,114 (1992)#6,334
2000s186#3,524 (2006)#5,233
2010s394#2,421 (2019)#3,020
2020s1,256#599 (2025)#1,320

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Kolter in 1987

boys
#4,968
8 births · 1 in 233,373 boys

Top boys' names in 1987

  1. #1Michael63,664
  2. #2Christopher54,493
  3. #3Matthew46,511
  4. #4Joshua40,002
  5. #5David36,795
  6. #6Andrew36,206
  7. #7Daniel35,876
  8. #8James32,659
  9. #9Justin31,491
  10. #10Robert30,237
  11. #4,968Kolter8
More about 1987

boys

1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 233,373 of them was named Kolter, which outranked 39.1% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Kolter
  1. #4,573Zaquan9
  2. #4,573Zayne9
  3. #4,573Zed9
  4. #4,968Kolter8
  5. #4,968Aarion8
  6. #4,968Abby8
  7. #4,968Abdelrahman8
  8. #5,459Abdur7
  9. #5,459Acey7
  10. #5,459Adama7

Tied with 490 names at #4,968; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1986
Risers
  1. 994Trevin#1,962#968
  2. 819Conner#1,617#798
  3. 593Mychal#1,363#770
  4. 503Jaren#1,457#954
  5. 457Corbin#1,049#592
Fallers
  1. 623Durell#816#1,439
  2. 336Jayce#694#1,030
  3. 267Rasheed#921#1,188
  4. 263Deshaun#971#1,234
  5. 260Britt#880#1,140

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1987