Coulter

Coulter is the 1,759th most common surname in the United States, shared by 19,931 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 15,000.

By the numbers

People: 19,931
Rank: 1,759th
How common: 1 in 15,000
Per 100,000: 6.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Coulter described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 82.9%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Coulter

Ann Coulter (born 1961)American author, political commentator
Allen Coulter (born 2000)American television and film director
John Merle Coulter (1851–1928)U.S. Botanist
Thomas Coulter (1793–1843)British physician, botanist, and explorer
Phil Coulter (born 1942)Northern Irish musician, songwriter and record producer

People named Coulter with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Coulter

Also a first name

Coulter has been given to 847 American babies as a first name since 1979, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.