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
- 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
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 | #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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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 2008
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Utah#354 · 1 in 1,694
- Oklahoma#443 · 1 in 2,382
- Iowa#506 · 1 in 3,295
- Indiana#760 · 1 in 6,382
- North Carolina#808 · 1 in 6,964
Best ever in a state: #175 in Montana, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #354 | 14 | 1 in 1,694 |
| Oklahoma | #443 | 9 | 1 in 2,382 |
| Iowa | #506 | 5 | 1 in 3,295 |
| Indiana | #760 | 6 | 1 in 6,382 |
| North Carolina | #808 | 8 | 1 in 6,964 |
| Missouri | #813 | 5 | 1 in 6,904 |
| Texas | #858 | 22 | 1 in 8,600 |
| Illinois | #999 | 8 | 1 in 9,344 |
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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.
See more about Kooper
- 58 spots since 2024 (#1,082 → #1,024)
- 87 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,024)
- 12 spots since 2015 (#1,012 → #1,024)
- Biggest jump: 119 spots in 2022 (#1,098 → #979)
- Biggest drop: 38 spots in 2023 (#979 → #1,017)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2022 at #979 (230 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2022
- 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%)
- 45.4% of all boys named Kooper (1,820) were born in this decade
- 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.
Kooper in 2008
Top girls' names in 2008
Top boys' names in 2008
More about 2008
girls
1,890,938 girls got a published name in 2008; 1 in 236,367 of them was named Kooper, which outranked 38.6% of the 20,482 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,599Zyion9
- #11,599Zynasia9
- #11,599Zyrah9
- #12,579Kooper8
- #12,579Aailyah8
- #12,579Aalana8
- #12,579Aaliyana8
- #13,832Aahna7
- #13,832Aala7
- #13,832Aaleah7
Tied with 1,252 names at #12,579; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,040,150 boys got a published name in 2008; 1 in 13,692 of them was named Kooper, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,625 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).