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 2022
Top girls' names in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
girls
1,640,131 girls got a published name in 2022; 1 in 10,514 of them was named Pepper, which outranked 91.9% of the 17,760 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,431Kinzley157
- #1,431Rosalind157
- #1,431Roselynn157
- #1,437Pepper156
- #1,437Eliette156
- #1,437Prisha156
- #1,437Tillie156
- #1,443Alyvia155
- #1,443Aryah155
- #1,443Jalayah155
Tied with 5 names at #1,437; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 349,202 of them was named Pepper, which outranked 14.0% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,003 names at #12,330; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.