Kutter
Masculine · “one who cuts”
Kutter is a respelling of Cutter, an English occupational surname — a man who cut cloth, or stone, or timber, depending on the town he worked in.
How old is the name Kutter?
Kutter first appears in US birth records in 1990 — 35 years ago. The typical Kutter is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Kutter are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kutter most popular?
Kutter peaked in 2023, reaching #3416 nationally. Today it ranks #3658, 242 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From cutten to Kutter
The story of Kutter
Cutting cloth was a specialized job in the medieval trade — a bad cut wasted expensive material — and Cutter, Tailor and Shearer all name parts of the process. The surname reached America with English settlement. Its move into given names is recent and belongs with Colt, Ridge and Cash, in the same American regional tradition; the K spelling is newer still.
Meaning
one who cuts
From Middle English cutten, to cut, with the agent ending; the byname named a cloth-cutter in some places and a stone- or wood-cutter in others, and the trade is not recoverable from the name alone.
How the name formed
- cutten
- Cutter
- Kutter
Related forms: Cutter · Schneider
Pronouncing Kutter
KUT-er
Two syllables, first stressed. Kutter and Cutter are said identically.
Nicknames for Kutter
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1990
- Most boys named
- 202334 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3416reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −6.3%30 in 2025, from 32
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Kutter in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Cutter in English — spelling variant
- Schneider in German — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri.
Kutters among us
people named Kutter are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 56,936 born in 2025 was named Kutter
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kutter
- #3658
- Kutter on the 2025 chart
- #850
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kutter went to 30 boys in 2025, but Cutter is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 78, which makes it the 850th most-given boys’ name of the year — 2,808 places above the chart.
- Cutter48
- Kutter30
About 1 boy in 21,898 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 56,936 for Kutter itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Shalin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kutter's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Shalin climbed just as high around 1981, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Shalin's path sketches the road Kutter is walking now.
Kutter sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kutter is headed
Kutter looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 33% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Kutter beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kutter in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled occupational meaning that needs no research to explain.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- It belongs to a recognizable American regional naming tradition.
- Cutter is the standard spelling and will be written for him constantly.
- The word has several unhelpful English senses, which he will meet.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kutters are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Kutter are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kutter?
- Kutter is one of 2 recorded spellings. Cutter is the more common one — 48 births in 2025 against 30 for Kutter.
- How popular is the name Kutter in 2025?
- Kutter ranks #3658 among US boy names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kutter?
- About 1 in every 56,936 US boys born in 2025 was named Kutter — 30 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kutter with classmates?
- Kutter will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kutter
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