Colter

Colter rides in from the American West. An English surname meaning "herder of colts," it owes much of its current popularity to the mountain man John Colter, who in 1807 became the first white man to describe the geysers of what is now Yellowstone. The country singer Colter Wall has since given it a fresh, low-voiced cool. It entered the U.S. top 500 in the 2010s and has been climbing, part of a wave of rugged, outdoorsy boys' names with a surname spine. Two syllables, a hard C opener, a name that knows how to saddle a horse.