Kooper
- #4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births
- #1,024 for boys in 2025, 218 births
- Given to boys 91.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2022 · 230 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,012since 1990
Kooper over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,758 | 28 | #1,024 | 218 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #1,082 | 201 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 | #1,017 | 215 |
| 2022 | #4,907 | 27 | #979 | 230 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #1,098 | 191 |
| 2020 | #8,406 | 12 | #1,111 | 177 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | #1,094 | 182 |
| 2018 | #4,768 | 28 | #1,064 | 190 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #1,081 | 181 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #1,080 | 182 |
| 2015 | #6,452 | 19 | #1,012 | 201 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #1,082 | 178 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 | #1,035 | 186 |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #1,046 | 183 |
| 2011 | #6,855 | 18 | #1,091 | 170 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | #1,125 | 167 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #1,085 | 171 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,188 | 149 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #1,337 | 126 |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,562 | 94 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #1,595 | 86 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,051 | 58 |
| 2003 | — | #2,077 | 54 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,943 | 31 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,117 | 49 | |
| 2000 | — | #3,640 | 22 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,182 | 25 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,246 | 15 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,396 | 14 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,124 | 11 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #4,447 | 13 | |
| 1992 | — | #7,422 | 6 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1990
The first year at least five boys were named Kooper! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1991, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Kooper is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | #328 | 14 | 1 in 1,263 |
| Arkansas | #398 | 8 | 1 in 1,573 |
| Iowa | #448 | 7 | 1 in 1,976 |
| Louisiana | #531 | 8 | 1 in 2,391 |
| Alabama | #622 | 7 | 1 in 3,074 |
| Kentucky | #625 | 6 | 1 in 3,423 |
| Missouri | #648 | 8 | 1 in 3,476 |
| Ohio | #676 | 13 | 1 in 4,041 |
| Wisconsin | #785 | 5 | 1 in 4,686 |
| Texas | #915 | 27 | 1 in 6,483 |
| Tennessee | #927 | 6 | 1 in 6,128 |
| North Carolina | #1,028 | 7 | 1 in 7,353 |
| Georgia | #1,096 | 7 | 1 in 7,174 |
| Illinois | #1,133 | 6 | 1 in 8,259 |
| New York | #1,410 | 7 | 1 in 12,060 |
| Florida | #1,625 | 6 | 1 in 15,922 |
| California | #1,687 | 9 | 1 in 19,497 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 87 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,024)
- 12 spots since 2015 (#1,012 → #1,024)
- Biggest jump: 119 spots in 2022
- Biggest drop: 38 spots in 2023
Rise & fade · boys
32 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #979 (230 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2022
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,591
- Highest: 1 in 7,591 boys born in 2022 were named Kooper (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,835 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 45.4% of all boys named Kooper (1,820) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 120 | #3,182 (1999) | #5,071 |
| 2000s | 840 | #1,085 (2009) | #1,960 |
| 2010s | 1,820 | #1,012 (2015) | #1,071 |
| 2020s | 1,232 | #979 (2022) | #1,052 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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