Meaning not yet researched.
Pepper: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 102 in 2025. Its best rank was #956 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #956 in 1975; #1,907 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Pepper in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,907 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #956.
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Pepper: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 102 girls in 2025. Peak: #956 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 161 (2014).
In 2025, 102 US girls were named Pepper, making it the 1,907th most common girls’ name of the year, down 272 places from #1,635 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 127 girls named Pepper in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #956, reached in 1975. The most girls given the name in a single year was 161, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,503 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pepper in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1937 with 5 babies. In all, 3,551 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,390 babies named Pepper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,337 US girls were named Pepper; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 156. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,758 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Pepper ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #589 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Piper (62,934 babies since 1880) and Pyper (3,307 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Pepper in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 7 | #589 | #698 |
| California | 20 | #1,264 | #1,419 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,330 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,642 | #1,639 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,088 | #2,336 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,674 | #2,166 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 102 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2024 | 127 | #1,635 | — | — |
| 2023 | 129 | #1,623 | 5 | #13,660 |
| 2022 | 156 | #1,438 | 5 | #13,833 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,403 | 8 | #9,471 |
| 2020 | 132 | #1,589 | — | — |
| 2019 | 145 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2018 | 131 | #1,630 | 9 | #8,650 |
| 2017 | 123 | #1,736 | 7 | #10,497 |
| 2016 | 136 | #1,621 | 9 | #8,641 |
| 2015 | 152 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 2014 | 161 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 2013 | 154 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,610 | 7 | #10,480 |
| 2011 | 118 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 2010 | 98 | #2,039 | 5 | #13,750 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,726 | 10 | #8,145 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,987 | 5 | #14,090 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,029 | — | — |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,063 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,072 | 8 | #8,900 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,458 | 9 | #8,008 |
| 2003 | — | — | 6 | #10,524 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,449 | 6 | #10,329 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,921 | 5 | #11,854 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,806 | 5 | #11,696 |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,118 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,904 | 5 | #10,866 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,495 | 7 | #7,907 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,028 | 5 | #10,129 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,930 | 9 | #6,276 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,972 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,128 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,743 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,583 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,836 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,057 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,814 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,366 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,986 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 1980 | 35 | #2,688 | — | — |
| 1979 | 48 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1978 | 63 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1977 | 88 | #1,321 | — | — |
| 1976 | 119 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1975 | 132 | #956 | — | — |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,738 | 7 | #4,506 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,309 | 7 | #4,393 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,029 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,613 | 5 | #5,462 |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,345 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,122 | 5 | #4,379 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,473 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,808 | — | — |
| 1962 | 20 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,074 | 7 | #3,576 |
| 1959 | — | — | 5 | #4,420 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,929 | 7 | #3,493 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,350 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,081 | 6 | #3,786 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,202 | 6 | #3,724 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,503 | 7 | #3,351 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,207 | — | — |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,067 |
| 1948 | — | — | 5 | #4,058 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,924 | 8 | #3,041 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,437 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,377 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,894 |
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).