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
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 116 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,383since 1949
Caprice 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 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #12,330 | 5 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | — | |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,069 | 36 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | #5,797 | 22 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,557 | 24 | #10,770 | 6 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | — | |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,370 | 34 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #3,859 | 41 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 | #10,921 | 6 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,748 | 38 | — | |
| 2003 | #3,590 | 39 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,888 | 51 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,417 | 39 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #5,920 | 11 |
| 1999 | #2,438 | 59 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #2,498 | 55 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #2,323 | 56 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | #5,771 | 9 |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #1,727 | 84 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #1,543 | 99 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,701 | 80 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,600 | 81 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,630 | 75 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #1,770 | 65 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,137 | 49 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #2,574 | 36 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,236 | 43 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,369 | 41 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,657 | 34 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #2,749 | 33 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | #2,162 | 43 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | #2,060 | 42 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,290 | 34 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #1,399 | 70 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #1,394 | 71 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,176 | 97 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,421 | 73 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,019 | 114 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,123 | 90 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,239 | 74 | — | |
| 1966 | #944 | 116 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,575 | 50 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,151 | 31 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,131 | 31 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,732 | 43 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,627 | 48 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,432 | 24 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,449 | 22 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,727 | 18 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,156 | 25 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,076 | 26 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,934 | 27 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,235 | 7 | — | |
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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
- 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)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1966 at #944 (116 births)
- Births halved by 1974, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1966
- 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%)
- 20.0% of all girls named Caprice (676) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 7 | #4,235 (1949) | #4,235 |
| 1950s | 230 | #1,931 (1953) | #2,284 |
| 1960s | 621 | #944 (1966) | #1,597 |
| 1970s | 563 | #1,176 (1971) | #1,823 |
| 1980s | 537 | #1,600 (1988) | #2,142 |
| 1990s | 676 | #1,543 (1990) | #2,140 |
| 2000s | 467 | #2,631 (2006) | #3,364 |
| 2010s | 215 | #4,069 (2015) | #6,742 |
| 2020s | 67 | #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 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 35,119 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 82.9% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,100Thao50
- #2,100Trang50
- #2,100Van50
- #2,137Caprice49
- #2,137Anamaria49
- #2,137Azucena49
- #2,137Caley49
- #2,172Alonna48
- #2,172Amaris48
- #2,172America48
Tied with 34 names at #2,137; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 205,357 of them was named Caprice, which outranked 42.9% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,052Zacheriah10
- #4,052Zebedee10
- #4,052Zeeshan10
- #4,333Caprice9
- #4,333Aakash9
- #4,333Aaryn9
- #4,333Abelino9
- #4,698Abdulla8
- #4,698Abrahan8
- #4,698Adrin8
Tied with 364 names at #4,333; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.