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Kaulder

Gender
Boy
Say it
KAWL-der
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#7,190 for boys

Kaulder is a boys' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Kaulder mean?

Scottish: probably a respelling of Calder, a Scottish place name

Kaulder is the immortal hero of the 2015 fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter.

Is Kaulder a girl's or a boy's name?

Kaulder is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Kaulder in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Kaulder, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 32 boys. It first appears in the records in 2016.

Half of all the boys named Kaulder in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 117 boys in the US were given Kaulder or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,352, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.

2016Busiest: 32 in 20162025
Kaulder in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
20249#8,307
202314#6,215
202218#5,211
202123#4,358
202014#5,976
201918#5,149
201814#6,032
201720#4,742
201632#3,440

Names like Kaulder

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Kaulder

More Scottish names

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kaulder: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kaulder, updated 20 October 2026.