Copeland
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births · #1,358 for boys in 2025, 138 births
Given to boys 81.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 138 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,198since 1912
Copeland 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 | #6,116 | 19 | #1,358 | 138 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | #1,997 | 77 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #2,315 | 60 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,299 | 62 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #2,277 | 61 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #2,024 | 70 |
| 2019 | #6,414 | 18 | #1,974 | 74 |
| 2018 | #4,562 | 30 | #2,029 | 71 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 | #2,065 | 67 |
| 2016 | #5,284 | 25 | #3,059 | 38 |
| 2015 | #6,036 | 21 | #2,429 | 52 |
| 2014 | #5,993 | 21 | #2,754 | 43 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,895 | 39 |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #4,517 | 21 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | — | #4,714 | 20 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,793 | 27 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,824 | 17 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,246 | 15 | |
| 2003 | — | #6,258 | 11 | |
| 2002 | — | #5,725 | 12 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,935 | 9 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #6,843 | 8 | |
| 1997 | — | #7,281 | 7 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #7,792 | 6 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
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| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
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| 1930 | — | #4,001 | 5 | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,697 | 6 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,082 | 7 | |
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| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Copeland! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1914, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Copeland is popular in 1912
No state had 5 or more boys named Copeland in 1912, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Copeland
- 639 spots since 2024 (#1,997 → #1,358)
- 666 spots since 2020 (#2,024 → #1,358)
- 1,071 spots since 2015 (#2,429 → #1,358)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2025 at #1,358 (138 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,377 boys born in 2025 were named Copeland (0.01%)
- 39.1% of all boys named Copeland (468) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,813 |
| 1920s | 26 | #3,697 (1928) | #4,142 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,001 (1930) | #4,001 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,316 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,724 (1970) | #4,724 |
| 1980s | 10 | #6,250 (1980) | #6,601 |
| 1990s | 52 | #6,670 (1992) | #7,564 |
| 2000s | 156 | #3,793 (2007) | #5,371 |
| 2010s | 458 | #1,974 (2019) | #2,942 |
| 2020s | 468 | #1,358 (2025) | #2,045 |
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.
Copeland in 1912
Top boys' names in 1912
More about 1912
boys
429,942 boys got a published name in 1912; 1 in 85,988 of them was named Copeland, which outranked 12.4% of the 2,905 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 361 names at #2,544; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.