Fun Facts About the Name Coulter
- 847 babies named Coulter: U.S. records list 847 babies given the name Coulter from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Coulter Mean?
Coulter is an English and Scottish surname, used as a given name, and its established meaning is "plowshare." The word comes from Middle English colter or coulter, the iron blade of a plow, which goes back to Old English culter, borrowed from Latin culter, "knife" or "plowshare."
As a surname, Coulter was occupational: it described a plowman or a plowwright, someone who used or made plow irons. The literal sense is the farm tool, not a personal quality. A place-name origin from a Scottish place called Coulter or Culter has also been suggested, but the occupational explanation from the plowshare word is the usual one.
Coulter Name History & Origins
The word behind the name is old in English. Old English culter was a borrowing from Latin, where culter meant "knife" and also the cutting iron of a plow. In Middle English the farming sense appears as colter and coulter. From that word came the surname Coulter, used in northern England and Scotland for men whose work involved plows - plowmen, and especially plowwrights who made and repaired the iron parts.
The surname later spread to Ulster with English and Scottish settlement. As a first name, Coulter is a transferred surname, following the English-language practice of using surnames as given names.
How Popular is the Name Coulter?
Coulter has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2024. Its best rank was #2,986 in 1988.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,328 | 35 | 0.0020% |
| 2024 | #3,103 | 39 | 0.0023% |
| 2023 | #3,430 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2022 | #4,111 | 26 | 0.0015% |
| 2021 | #4,133 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2020 | #4,565 | 21 | 0.0012% |
| 2019 | #4,250 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2018 | #5,142 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2017 | #4,129 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2016 | #4,218 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2015 | #4,197 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2014 | #4,035 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2013 | #4,082 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2012 | #4,155 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2011 | #3,909 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2010 | #3,913 | 26 | 0.0014% |
| 2009 | #4,958 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2008 | #4,290 | 23 | 0.0011% |
| 2007 | #4,844 | 19 | 0.0009% |
| 2006 | #4,543 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2005 | #3,545 | 27 | 0.0014% |
| 2004 | #4,827 | 17 | 0.0009% |
| 2003 | #3,864 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2002 | #4,213 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2001 | #4,716 | 16 | 0.0008% |
| 2000 | #3,659 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #4,813 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1998 | #3,406 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 1997 | #4,711 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1996 | #3,424 | 20 | 0.0011% |
| 1995 | #3,578 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1994 | #3,625 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1993 | #4,495 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #4,364 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1991 | #4,532 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1990 | #4,726 | 11 | 0.0005% |
| 1989 | #4,321 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 1988 | #2,986 | 18 | 0.0009% |
| 1987 | #7,164 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1986 | #5,444 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1985 | #4,104 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 1984 | #6,494 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1982 | #5,123 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 1979 | #6,222 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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