Caprice — unisex name

What the Data Says About Caprice

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,369 babies named Caprice between 1949 and 2023, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Caprice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1966, when 116 babies received it in a single year. Caprice is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 180 additional births since 1973.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Caprice performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 676 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Caprice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 400 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Caprice in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Caprice in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,369 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.