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The first name 
Colter

Colter is a male first name.

Colter is a common name for boys!

The name Colter isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Colter ranks 839. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Colter. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Colter.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Colter

Colter -
keeping with the times

Colter is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Colter cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #412 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Colter, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Colter seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Colter was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Colter has 6 letters 
and begins with a C

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for boys’ names. This is because 5.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D.

With six letters, the name Colter is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 5.2% of all boys' names that begin with a C, this first letter is thus much more common than the average of all letters. And which boys’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Charles.

Other names with 
C, o, l, t, e and r

If you take all the letters in the name Colter – C, o, l, t, e and r – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Lector.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Colter

If your name is Colter and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Colter

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Colter, you can simply say:

Cat

Orange

Lion

Tiger

Elephant

Rocket

This is how the name Colter is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Colter in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Colter

Colter

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Colter

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Colter is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

C
O
L
T
E
R

Have you ever waved the name Colter

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

C
O
L
T
E
R

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Colter sounds like this: