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

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Peak · girls
1966 · 116 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,383
since 1949

Caprice over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201967peak #944, 1966peak #3,013, 1973girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,49114
2024
2023#9,61610
2022#10,3839#12,3305
2021#6,96716
2020#6,32518
2019#15,5395
2018#6,79217
2017#7,09216#12,2465
2016#6,90117
2015#4,06936#10,6446
2014#5,79722
2013#4,88728
2012#5,55724#10,7706
2011#5,54324
2010#5,24726
2009#4,37034#10,9946
2008#3,85941
2007#3,60145#10,9216
2006#2,63168#12,0555
2005#2,86557
2004#3,74838
2003#3,59039
2002#2,88851
2001#3,41739#10,5565
2000#2,67255#5,92011
1999#2,43859#7,8747
1998#2,49855#5,15912
1997#2,62248
1996#2,17762#7,9716
1995#2,48651#8,8685
1994#2,32356#6,9687
1993#1,67989#5,7719
1992#1,90873#7,4226
1991#1,72784#4,76011
1990#1,54399
1989#1,70180
1988#1,60081
1987#1,63075#6,9515
1986#1,77065
1985#2,13749#4,3339
1984#2,57436
1983#2,23643
1982#2,36941
1981#2,65734#6,2625
1980#2,74933
1979#2,02050#5,3556
1978#2,05046#4,5547
1977#2,16243#4,1648
1976#2,25537#5,5875
1975#2,06042
1974#2,29034#4,6346
1973#1,39970#3,01311
1972#1,39471
1971#1,17697
1970#1,42173
1969#1,019114
1968#1,12390
1967#1,23974
1966#944116
1965#1,57550
1964#2,15131
1963#2,13131
1962#1,73243
1961#1,62748
1960#2,43224
1959#3,10415
1958#2,44922
1957#2,72718
1956#1,96830
1955#2,15625
1954#2,07626
1953#1,93128
1952#1,93427
1951#2,24520
1950#2,25319
1949#4,2357
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First appearance
1949

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.

See more about Caprice
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1949
  • Peaked 1966 at #944 (116 births)
  • Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1966
Share of babies · girls
1 in 14,588
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
  • 20.0% of all girls named Caprice (676) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s7#4,235 (1949)#4,235
1950s230#1,931 (1953)#2,284
1960s621#944 (1966)#1,597
1970s563#1,176 (1971)#1,823
1980s537#1,600 (1988)#2,142
1990s676#1,543 (1990)#2,140
2000s467#2,631 (2006)#3,364
2010s215#4,069 (2015)#6,742
2020s67#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 1967

girls
#1,239
74 births · 1 in 22,311 girls

Top girls' names in 1967

  1. #1Lisa52,437
  2. #2Kimberly33,097
  3. #3Michelle30,827
  4. #4Mary25,316
  5. #5Susan22,262
  6. #6Karen21,537
  7. #7Angela19,555
  8. #8Tammy18,652
  9. #9Melissa18,377
  10. #10Jennifer18,236
  11. #1,239Caprice74
More about 1967

girls

1,651,025 girls got a published name in 1967; 1 in 22,311 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 84.2% of the 7,852 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Caprice
  1. #1,227Page75
  2. #1,227Taunya75
  3. #1,227Wendie75
  4. #1,239Caprice74
  5. #1,239Brigid74
  6. #1,239Corine74
  7. #1,239Dyan74
  8. #1,255Aletha73
  9. #1,255Christen73
  10. #1,255Dani73

Tied with 15 names at #1,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1966
Risers
  1. 1,873Anissa#2,519#646
  2. 1,660Buffy#2,453#793
  3. 1,522Nichelle#2,022#500
  4. 893Josette#1,621#728
  5. 862Lissette#1,600#738
Fallers
  1. 792Tatia#668#1,460
  2. 531Inger#929#1,460
  3. 400Sonji#639#1,039
  4. 389Sunday#983#1,372
  5. 325Cinda#944#1,269

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

See the top 100 for 1967