Meaning not yet researched.
Caprice: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #944 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #944 in 1966; #7,565 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Caprice in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,565 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #944.
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Caprice: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #944 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 116 (1966).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Caprice, making it the 7,565th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #944, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 116. For comparison, it was #4,085 in 2015 and #2,262 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Caprice in 76 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 7 babies. In all, 3,563 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 739 babies named Caprice.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 122 US girls were named Caprice; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Kaprice and Caprece are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kaprice (383), Caprece (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Caprice in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,565 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,753 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,555 | 5 | #12,669 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,023 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,379 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,001 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,857 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,162 | 5 | #12,597 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,966 | — | — |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,085 | 6 | #10,900 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,832 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,925 | — | — |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,587 | 6 | #11,013 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,584 | — | — |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,388 | 6 | #11,219 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,611 | 6 | #11,131 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,639 | 5 | #12,327 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,874 | — | — |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,758 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,606 | — | — |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,898 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,428 | 5 | #10,819 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,678 | 11 | #5,970 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,441 | 7 | #7,979 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,501 | 12 | #5,191 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,626 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,178 | 6 | #8,095 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,494 | 5 | #9,058 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,324 | 7 | #7,064 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,681 | 9 | #5,826 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,912 | 6 | #7,548 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,728 | 11 | #4,806 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,546 | — | — |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,632 | 5 | #7,097 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,140 | 9 | #4,377 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,243 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,666 | 5 | #6,403 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,023 | 6 | #5,449 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,055 | 7 | #4,621 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,165 | 8 | #4,221 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,261 | 5 | #5,718 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,301 | 6 | #4,704 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,399 | 11 | #3,042 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,240 | — | — |
| 1966 | 116 | #944 | — | — |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,136 | — | — |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,733 | — | — |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,461 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,976 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,078 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,262 | — | — |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,283 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).