Pepper
- #1,902 for girls in 2025, 102 births
- Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
- Given to girls 93.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1975 · 132 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,306since 1947
Pepper over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
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 | #1,902 | 102 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,630 | 127 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,614 | 129 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #1,437 | 156 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #1,398 | 156 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #1,587 | 132 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,502 | 145 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,623 | 131 | #8,154 | 9 |
| 2017 | #1,721 | 123 | #9,696 | 7 |
| 2016 | #1,614 | 136 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #1,501 | 152 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,416 | 161 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,451 | 154 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,602 | 135 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #1,741 | 118 | — | |
| 2010 | #2,028 | 98 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #2,705 | 67 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #6,812 | 19 | — | |
| 2006 | #4,953 | 28 | — | |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | — | |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #5,928 | 9 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | — | |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #7,353 | 9 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 | — | |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,651 | 35 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,088 | 48 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,669 | 63 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,315 | 88 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,036 | 119 | — | |
| 1975 | #951 | 132 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,683 | 27 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,508 | 18 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #3,872 | 15 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,456 | 15 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,781 | 20 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | #3,948 | 5 |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,379 | 15 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,741 | 20 | — | |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 | #3,337 | 7 |
| 1959 | — | #3,988 | 5 | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 | #3,275 | 7 |
| 1957 | — | #2,274 | 13 | |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 | #3,452 | 6 |
| 1953 | #4,226 | 8 | #3,143 | 7 |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | #3,668 | 5 | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1947
The first year at least five girls were named Pepper! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Pepper 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.
Top states · girls
- Utah#539 · 1 in 2,440
- Virginia#1,180 · 1 in 6,748
- California#1,228 · 1 in 8,086
- Ohio#1,438 · 1 in 9,454
- Florida#1,887 · 1 in 14,460
Best ever in a state: #305 in Idaho, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #539 | 7 | 1 in 2,440 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| California | #1,228 | 20 | 1 in 8,086 |
| Ohio | #1,438 | 5 | 1 in 9,454 |
| Florida | #1,887 | 6 | 1 in 14,460 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 Pepper
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 315 spots since 2020 (#1,587 → #1,902)
- Biggest jump: 1,732 spots in 1975
- Biggest drop: 85 spots in 1976
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1975 at #951 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1975
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,514
- Highest: 1 in 10,514 girls born in 2022 were named Pepper (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,758 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #951 in 1975, was only 1 in 11,044 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 40.9% of all girls named Pepper (1,353) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2005
- Mostly boys until 2004, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #5,295 (1947) | #5,295 |
| 1950s | 45 | #3,910 (1956) | #4,636 |
| 1960s | 138 | #2,741 (1962) | #3,727 |
| 1970s | 552 | #951 (1975) | #2,333 |
| 1980s | 162 | #2,651 (1980) | #5,463 |
| 1990s | 58 | #7,532 (1998) | #11,835 |
| 2000s | 191 | #2,705 (2009) | #8,264 |
| 2010s | 1,353 | #1,416 (2014) | #1,620 |
| 2020s | 802 | #1,398 (2021) | #1,595 |
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.
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