Cap

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349

Peak · boys
1885 · 9 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
104
since 1881

Cap over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Cap has never cracked the top 600 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201901peak #641, 1885boys
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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
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
2024#12,3495
2023
2022#8,9908
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2013#12,1365
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1944#3,4305
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1936#3,5495
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1920#4,2865
1919#4,1685
1918#4,1795
1917#3,2177
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1913#2,2737
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1901#9436
1900#1,3105
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1894
1893#9076
1892#1,0665
1891#9635
1890
1889
1888#1,0315
1887
1886
1885#6419
1884
1883
1882
1881#7816
1880
First appearance
1881

The first year at least five boys were named Cap! It came in at #781, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1882–1884, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Cap
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
  • Biggest jump: 367 spots in 1901 (#1,310#943)
  • Biggest drop: 103 spots in 1892 (#963#1,066)
Rise & fade · boys
4 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1881
  • Peaked 1885 at #641 (9 births)
  • Births halved by 1886, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 5 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 5 yrs · 1881–1901
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,978
  • Highest: 1 in 11,978 boys born in 1885 were named Cap (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1910s
  • 23.1% of all boys named Cap (24) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s20#641 (1885)#818
1890s16#907 (1893)#979
1900s11#943 (1901)#1,127
1910s24#2,273 (1913)#3,459
1920s5#4,286 (1920)#4,286
1930s5#3,549 (1936)#3,549
1940s5#3,430 (1944)#3,430
1950s0
1960s0
1970s0
1980s0
1990s0
2000s0
2010s5#12,136 (2013)#12,136
2020s13#8,990 (2022)#10,670

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.

Cap in 1901

boys
#943
6 births · 1 in 17,745 boys

Top boys' names in 1901

  1. #1John6,900
  2. #2William5,990
  3. #3James4,735
  4. #4George3,609
  5. #5Charles3,049
  6. #6Joseph2,766
  7. #7Robert2,543
  8. #8Frank2,402
  9. #9Edward1,917
  10. #10Henry1,870
  11. #943Cap6
More about 1901

boys

106,467 boys got a published name in 1901; 1 in 17,745 of them was named Cap, which outranked 22.1% of the 1,210 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Cap
  1. #858Vicente7
  2. #858Vito7
  3. #858Zack7
  4. #943Cap6
  5. #943Adelbert6
  6. #943Adolf6
  7. #943Adolfo6
  8. #1,058Admiral5
  9. #1,058Alec5
  10. #1,058Alejandro5

Tied with 114 names at #943; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1900
Risers
  1. 751Andres#1,310#559
  2. 714Ellwood#1,310#596
  3. 696Kermit#1,162#466
  4. 675Julia#1,162#487
  5. 673Kirk#1,310#637
Fallers
  1. 628Judge#430#1,058
  2. 568Lonzo#490#1,058
  3. 513Travis#430#943
  4. 503Hector#555#1,058
  5. 480Admiral#578#1,058

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

See the top 100 for 1901