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Kutina vs Kutter

American parents have registered 609 Kutters since 1880, against 52 Kutinas. Kutter is still ahead, with 30 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kutina against Kutter, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kutina Kutter

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Kutter for 33 years and Kutina for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Kutina Kutter
Total US births 52609
Most in one year 2734
Babies in 2025 under 530
Estimated living today 50600
Median age today 5312
Peak year 19722023
Best rank 2,598th girls3,416th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked3,658th
First recorded 19721990
Girls / boys 52 / 00 / 609

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kutinas alive today are over 53; half the Kutters are over 12. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Compare something else

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kutina and Kutter.