Skipper
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 98.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1962 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 830since 1937
Skipper over time
Rank among boys' names. Skipper has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #10,695 | 6 |
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| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | — | |
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| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
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| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | — | #6,315 | 5 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,907 | 7 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,680 | 17 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,799 | 15 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,270 | 20 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,417 | 18 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,540 | 16 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,277 | 18 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,871 | 23 | |
| 1972 | — | #2,534 | 14 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,767 | 22 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,507 | 26 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,723 | 20 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,625 | 23 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,655 | 23 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,695 | 22 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,367 | 33 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,635 | 24 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,552 | 27 | |
| 1959 | — | #1,559 | 26 | |
| 1958 | — | #1,511 | 27 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,887 | 18 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,765 | 20 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,048 | 15 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,887 | 17 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,765 | 19 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,701 | 20 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,683 | 20 | |
| 1950 | — | #1,572 | 22 | |
| 1949 | — | #1,616 | 21 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,817 | 17 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,403 | 10 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,131 | 11 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,195 | 11 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,833 | 16 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,145 | 12 | |
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| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,609 | 8 | |
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Skipper! It came in at #3,175, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1941, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Skipper
- Debuted 1937
- Peaked 1962 at #1,367 (33 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 62,690 boys born in 1962 were named Skipper (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 28.2% of all boys named Skipper (234) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 20 | #2,609 (1939) | #2,986 |
| 1940s | 121 | #1,616 (1949) | #2,124 |
| 1950s | 204 | #1,511 (1958) | #1,738 |
| 1960s | 234 | #1,367 (1962) | #1,673 |
| 1970s | 172 | #1,871 (1973) | #2,489 |
| 1980s | 68 | #2,680 (1981) | #5,010 |
| 1990s | 5 | #8,117 (1990) | #8,117 |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 6 | #10,695 (2025) | #10,695 |
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.
Skipper in 1937
Top boys' names in 1937
More about 1937
boys
1,066,659 boys got a published name in 1937; 1 in 177,777 of them was named Skipper, which outranked 21.0% of the 4,020 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,905Wright7
- #2,905Zan7
- #2,905Zed7
- #3,175Skipper6
- #3,175Adams6
- #3,175Aden6
- #3,175Adolpho6
- #3,518Abdul5
- #3,518Abron5
- #3,518Achilles5
Tied with 342 names at #3,175; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.