Meaning not yet researched.
Kooper: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 218 in 2025. Its best rank was #980 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #980 in 2022; #1,024 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Kooper in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,024 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #980.
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Kooper: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 218 boys in 2025. Peak: #980 in 2022 · most boys in one year: 230 (2022).
In 2025, 218 US boys were named Kooper, making it the 1,024th most common boys’ name of the year, up 61 places from #1,085 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 201 boys named Kooper in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #980, reached in 2022. That year also had the most boys given the name: 230. For comparison, it was #1,014 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Kooper, making it the 4,822nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,612 places from #7,434 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 15 girls named Kooper in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #4,822, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 28. For comparison, it was #6,595 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kooper in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 4,392 US babies have been given the name, 8.7% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,022 babies named Kooper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,967 US boys were named Kooper; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 230. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,835 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kooper ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #341 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Cooper (126,484 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kuper, Kuiper and Kuyper 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kuper (111), Kuiper (73), Kuyper (35).
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 Kooper 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 14 | #341 | #497 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #423 | — |
| Iowa | 7 | #471 | #617 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #564 | #672 |
| Alabama | 7 | #655 | — |
| Kentucky | 6 | #673 | #653 |
| Missouri | 8 | #689 | #547 |
| Ohio | 13 | #694 | #960 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #843 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #922 | #788 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #992 | #989 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,093 | #1,234 |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,169 | #1,167 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,214 | #1,455 |
| New York | 7 | #1,500 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,746 | #1,463 |
| California | 9 | #1,760 | #2,432 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,822 | 218 | #1,024 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,434 | 201 | #1,085 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,103 | 215 | #1,017 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,978 | 230 | #980 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,488 | 191 | #1,098 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,696 | 177 | #1,112 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,197 | 182 | #1,097 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,832 | 190 | #1,064 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,753 | 181 | #1,083 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,215 | 182 | #1,084 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,595 | 201 | #1,014 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,964 | 178 | #1,084 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,602 | 186 | #1,037 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,643 | 183 | #1,046 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,996 | 170 | #1,094 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,521 | 167 | #1,125 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,686 | 171 | #1,089 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,244 | 149 | #1,190 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,877 | 126 | #1,340 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,735 | 94 | #1,569 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,561 | 86 | #1,601 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,236 | 58 | #2,065 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,094 |
| 2002 | — | — | 31 | #2,989 |
| 2001 | — | — | 49 | #2,137 |
| 2000 | — | — | 22 | #3,713 |
| 1999 | — | — | 25 | #3,240 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,656 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,370 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,519 |
| 1995 | — | — | 11 | #5,355 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,286 |
| 1993 | — | — | 13 | #4,595 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #7,999 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,879 |
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).