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Copeland: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 138 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,359 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 88% of babies named Copeland in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,359 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Copeland: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 138 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,359 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 138 (2025).
In 2025, 138 US boys were named Copeland, making it the 1,359th most common boys’ name of the year, up 638 places from #1,997 in 2024. That is 61 more than the 77 boys named Copeland in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,359, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 138. For comparison, it was #2,435 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Copeland, making it the 6,170th most common girls’ name of the year, up 521 places from #6,691 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 17 girls named Copeland in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,584, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 30. For comparison, it was #6,073 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Copeland in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 1,479 US babies have been given the name, 19% of them girls and 81% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 624 babies named Copeland.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 718 US boys were named Copeland; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 138. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,377 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Copeland ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #501 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Kopeland are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kopeland (27).
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 Copeland in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 6 | #501 | — |
| Alabama | 8 | #583 | #728 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #637 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #640 | — |
| Tennessee | 10 | #681 | #939 |
| Utah | 5 | #724 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #764 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #872 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #892 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,123 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,137 | — |
| Texas | 11 | #1,574 | #2,174 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,673 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,170 | 138 | #1,359 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,691 | 77 | #1,997 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,477 | 60 | #2,322 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,270 | 62 | #2,302 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,752 | 61 | #2,282 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,908 | 70 | #2,028 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,482 | 74 | #1,978 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,584 | 71 | #2,033 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,835 | 67 | #2,070 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,320 | 38 | #3,072 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,073 | 52 | #2,435 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,034 | 43 | #2,761 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,222 | 39 | #2,900 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,030 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,251 | 28 | #3,709 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,546 | 21 | #4,548 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,930 | 17 | #5,369 |
| 2008 | — | — | 20 | #4,747 |
| 2007 | — | — | 27 | #3,803 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,165 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,864 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,298 |
| 2003 | — | — | 11 | #6,332 |
| 2002 | — | — | 12 | #5,793 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,026 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,826 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #8,012 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #6,969 |
| 1997 | — | — | 7 | #7,429 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,279 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #7,975 |
| 1994 | — | — | 5 | #9,050 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,792 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,350 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,153 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,422 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,832 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,380 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,793 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,318 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,333 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,471 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,430 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,149 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,625 |
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).