Caprice

#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2022 at #12,330
Given to girls 94.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
1966 · 116 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,383
since 1949

Caprice over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201949peak #944, 1966peak #3,013, 1973girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114—
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2023#9,61610—
2022#10,3839#12,3305
2021#6,96716—
2020#6,32518—
2019#15,5395—
2018#6,79217—
2017#7,09216#12,2465
2016#6,90117—
2015#4,06936#10,6446
2014#5,79722—
2013#4,88728—
2012#5,55724#10,7706
2011#5,54324—
2010#5,24726—
2009#4,37034#10,9946
2008#3,85941—
2007#3,60145#10,9216
2006#2,63168#12,0555
2005#2,86557—
2004#3,74838—
2003#3,59039—
2002#2,88851—
2001#3,41739#10,5565
2000#2,67255#5,92011
1999#2,43859#7,8747
1998#2,49855#5,15912
1997#2,62248—
1996#2,17762#7,9716
1995#2,48651#8,8685
1994#2,32356#6,9687
1993#1,67989#5,7719
1992#1,90873#7,4226
1991#1,72784#4,76011
1990#1,54399—
1989#1,70180—
1988#1,60081—
1987#1,63075#6,9515
1986#1,77065—
1985#2,13749#4,3339
1984#2,57436—
1983#2,23643—
1982#2,36941—
1981#2,65734#6,2625
1980#2,74933—
1979#2,02050#5,3556
1978#2,05046#4,5547
1977#2,16243#4,1648
1976#2,25537#5,5875
1975#2,06042—
1974#2,29034#4,6346
1973#1,39970#3,01311
1972#1,39471—
1971#1,17697—
1970#1,42173—
1969#1,019114—
1968#1,12390—
1967#1,23974—
1966#944116—
1965#1,57550—
1964#2,15131—
1963#2,13131—
1962#1,73243—
1961#1,62748—
1960#2,43224—
1959#3,10415—
1958#2,44922—
1957#2,72718—
1956#1,96830—
1955#2,15625—
1954#2,07626—
1953#1,93128—
1952#1,93427—
1951#2,24520—
1950#2,25319—
1949#4,2357—
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First appearance
1949

The first year at least five girls were named Caprice! It came in at #4,235, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 2024, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Caprice is popular in 1949

No state had 5 or more girls named Caprice in 1949, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Caprice
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,166 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #7,491)
  • 3,422 spots since 2015 (#4,069 → #7,491)
  • Biggest jump: 631 spots in 1966 (#1,575 → #944)
  • Biggest drop: 295 spots in 1967 (#944 → #1,239)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 1966 at #944 (116 births)
  • Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1966
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,588
  • Highest: 1 in 14,588 girls born in 1966 were named Caprice (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 20.0% of all girls named Caprice (676) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s7#4,235 (1949)#4,235
1950s230#1,931 (1953)#2,284
1960s621#944 (1966)#1,597
1970s563#1,176 (1971)#1,823
1980s537#1,600 (1988)#2,142
1990s676#1,543 (1990)#2,140
2000s467#2,631 (2006)#3,364
2010s215#4,069 (2015)#6,742
2020s67#6,325 (2020)#8,156

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Caprice in 1949

girls
#4,235
7 births · 1 in 244,411 girls

Top girls' names in 1949

  1. #1Linda91,015
  2. #2Mary66,874
  3. #3Patricia46,324
  4. #4Barbara42,600
  5. #5Susan37,709
  6. #6Sandra30,643
  7. #7Nancy29,249
  8. #8Carol26,780
  9. #9Kathleen26,357
  10. #10Sharon25,713
  11. #4,235Caprice7
More about 1949

girls

1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 244,411 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 30.2% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caprice
  1. #3,892Zan8
  2. #3,892Zina8
  3. #3,892Zulma8
  4. #4,235Caprice7
  5. #4,235Aaron7
  6. #4,235Adelene7
  7. #4,235Adelfa7
  8. #4,673Adalia6
  9. #4,673Adelmira6
  10. #4,673Adrien6

Tied with 437 names at #4,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1948
Risers
  1. ↑ 937Sharman#1,708 → #771
  2. ↑ 665Roseanna#1,422 → #757
  3. ↑ 483Shauna#1,173 → #690
  4. ↑ 293Jacalyn#1,116 → #823
  5. ↑ 267Sanjuana#1,185 → #918
Fallers
  1. ↓ 339Sandie#939 → #1,278
  2. ↓ 296Syble#955 → #1,251
  3. ↓ 272Shirleen#964 → #1,236
  4. ↓ 266Ginny#734 → #1,000
  5. ↓ 260Dina#861 → #1,121

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1949 →