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
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,383since 1949
Caprice over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,859 | 41 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,323 | 56 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #1,727 | 84 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #1,543 | 99 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,701 | 80 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,630 | 75 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,369 | 41 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #2,749 | 33 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,162 | 43 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #1,394 | 71 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,176 | 97 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,421 | 73 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,019 | 114 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,239 | 74 | — | |
| 1966 | #944 | 116 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,575 | 50 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,131 | 31 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,732 | 43 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,627 | 48 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,449 | 22 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,156 | 25 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,934 | 27 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
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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 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#633 · 1 in 5,184
- Ohio#913 · 1 in 11,284
- New York#1,045 · 1 in 10,169
- California#1,348 · 1 in 15,366
Best ever in a state: #466 in Washington, 1966.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #633 | 14 | 1 in 5,184 |
| Ohio | #913 | 6 | 1 in 11,284 |
| New York | #1,045 | 11 | 1 in 10,169 |
| California | #1,348 | 14 | 1 in 15,366 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Caprice
- 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)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1966 at #944 (116 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1966
- 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%)
- 20.0% of all girls named Caprice (676) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #4,235 (1949) | #4,235 |
| 1950s | 230 | #1,931 (1953) | #2,284 |
| 1960s | 621 | #944 (1966) | #1,597 |
| 1970s | 563 | #1,176 (1971) | #1,823 |
| 1980s | 537 | #1,600 (1988) | #2,142 |
| 1990s | 676 | #1,543 (1990) | #2,140 |
| 2000s | 467 | #2,631 (2006) | #3,364 |
| 2010s | 215 | #4,069 (2015) | #6,742 |
| 2020s | 67 | #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 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 23,182 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 87.7% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,619Sherell76
- #1,619Tawanna76
- #1,619Travis76
- #1,630Caprice75
- #1,630Alisia75
- #1,630Benita75
- #1,630Daryl75
- #1,647Alba74
- #1,647Ansley74
- #1,647Ayana74
Tied with 16 names at #1,630; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 373,397 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 14.7% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,201 names at #6,951; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.