Caprice
Caprice was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,563 among girls’ names; 3,563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1949 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,360 Americans named Caprice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 27 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Caprice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Caprice mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Caprice is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Caprice?
#7,563 among girls’ names, 2025
Caprice fell from #4,084 in 2015 to #7,563 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 20.2 to 8.7 per million.
116 babies in 1966, the peak
Caprice peaked in 1966, when 116 girls were given it, #944 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,563 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,748 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,550 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,018 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,375 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,995 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,853 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,158 | 9.3 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,963 | 9.6 |
| 2015 | 36 | #4,084 | 20.2 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 22 | #5,830 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,923 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,585 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,582 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,268 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,387 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,878 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,610 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,639 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,870 | 30.8 |
| 2004 | 38 | #3,754 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,602 | 21.3 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,894 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,424 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,674 | 30.3 |
| 1999 | 59 | #2,438 | 33.3 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,498 | 31.1 |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,623 | 27.6 |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,175 | 35.4 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,489 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,319 | 31.4 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,677 | 49.2 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,907 | 39.6 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,722 | 44.8 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,542 | 52.1 |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,699 | 43.4 |
| 1988 | 81 | #1,599 | 45.5 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,631 | 43.1 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,772 | 37.9 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,139 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,580 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 43 | #2,242 | 25.7 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,375 | 24.2 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,666 | 20.4 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,754 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,023 | 31.1 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,055 | 30.0 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,165 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,261 | 25.3 |
| 1975 | 42 | #2,062 | 28.8 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,301 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 70 | #1,399 | 48.0 |
| 1972 | 71 | #1,395 | 46.7 |
| 1971 | 97 | #1,176 | 58.3 |
| 1970 | 73 | #1,422 | 41.8 |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,019 | 67.6 |
| 1968 | 90 | #1,124 | 54.9 |
| 1967 | 74 | #1,240 | 44.8 |
| 1966 | 116 | #944 | 68.6 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,576 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 31 | #2,154 | 16.4 |
| 1963 | 31 | #2,135 | 16.1 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,732 | 21.9 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,626 | 23.8 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,440 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,119 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 22 | #2,460 | 10.9 |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,734 | 8.8 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,975 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,160 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 26 | #2,077 | 13.4 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,934 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,939 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,252 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,261 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,282 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Caprice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,563 Americans recorded as Caprice, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Caprice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Caprice, and how old are they?
3,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,563 Americans ever recorded as Caprice. The median Caprice alive today is 39 years old; half are between 27 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 2,962 people named Caprice (2,796 women and girls, 166 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,350 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 336 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 998 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 752 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Caprice born?
The states with the most babies named Caprice are California, Illinois and New York, with 68% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 400 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 210 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| New York | 201 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 90 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 83 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 73 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Caprice is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Caprice is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1949 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Caprice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,213 babies since 1880, Caprice is the most given (85% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Caprice
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Caprice and names like it
- Compare Caprice and KapriceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sCaprice peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Caprice since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Caprice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Caprice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with CMost given first.