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
- 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
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 | #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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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.
See more about Pepper
- 272 spots since 2024 (#1,630 → #1,902)
- 315 spots since 2020 (#1,587 → #1,902)
- 401 spots since 2015 (#1,501 → #1,902)
- Biggest jump: 1,732 spots in 1975 (#2,683 → #951)
- Biggest drop: 85 spots in 1976 (#951 → #1,036)
- Debuted 1947
- Peaked 1975 at #951 (132 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1975
- 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
- 40.9% of all girls named Pepper (1,353) were born in this decade
- 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.
Pepper in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 13,045 of them was named Pepper, which outranked 91.8% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,591Milah136
- #1,591Rosalee136
- #1,591Star136
- #1,602Pepper135
- #1,602Adamaris135
- #1,602Aleyah135
- #1,602Eunice135
- #1,612Brookelyn134
- #1,612Charlene134
- #1,612Elinor134
Tied with 9 names at #1,602; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 270,992 of them was named Pepper, which outranked 31.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,864Zephen8
- #8,864Ziven8
- #8,864Zuhayr8
- #9,709Pepper7
- #9,709Aadon7
- #9,709Aaliyah7
- #9,709Aarjav7
- #10,770Aadhavan6
- #10,770Aadith6
- #10,770Aadiv6
Tied with 1,060 names at #9,709; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.