Kharter
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- KAR-ter
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #3,657 for boys
Kharter is a name of English origin, meaning “cart driver”. In 2025 it ranked 3,657th for boys in the US (30 babies).
What does Kharter mean?
English: spelling of Carter; English occupational surname
“cart driver”
Howard Carter, the archaeologist who found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, is a famous bearer of the surname.
Meaning borrowed from Carter. More on Wiktionary.
Is Kharter a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Kharter has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 30 boys in the US.
How popular is Kharter in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,657among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 30about 1 in 57,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 34% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 30 boys in the US were named Kharter, making it the 3,657th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,416th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 74 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the boys named Kharter in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,054 boys in the US were given Kharter or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #53, up from #3,657 for this spelling alone.
- Carter 6,024
- Kharter 30
In 2023, 28% of the babies named Kharter in the US were girls.
Kharter in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,657 |
| 2024 | 26 | #4,069 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,109 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,531 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,114 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,416 |
| 2019 | 46 | #2,735 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,634 |
| 2017 | 55 | #2,344 |
| 2016 | 36 | #3,160 |
| 2015 | 74 | #1,955 |
| 2014 | 47 | #2,580 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,580 |
| 2012 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,495 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
Names like Kharter
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Krishiv Avyaan Aarav Karter Vihaan Veer Shivansh River Ivaan Atharv Avir Advik
Other spellings of Kharter
Names related to Kharter
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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, “Kharter: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kharter, updated 20 October 2026.