Copeland
Copeland is given to both girls and boys: 19 girls and 138 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,169 among girls’ names and #1,359 among boys’, #2,611 among all names counting both); 1,479 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Copeland and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Copeland by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Copeland?
#1,359 among boys’ names, 2025
Copeland rose from #2,434 in 2015 to #1,359 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 27.1 to 80.8 per million.
157 babies in 2025, the peak
Copeland peaked in 2025, when 157 babies were given it (138 boys, #1,359 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 77 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,169 | 138 | #1,359 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,688 | 77 | #1,997 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,472 | 60 | #2,321 |
| 2022 | 19 | #6,265 | 62 | #2,301 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,747 | 61 | #2,281 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,904 | 70 | #2,028 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,478 | 74 | #1,977 |
| 2018 | 30 | #4,582 | 71 | #2,032 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,833 | 67 | #2,070 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,319 | 38 | #3,071 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,071 | 52 | #2,434 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,032 | 43 | #2,759 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,217 | 39 | #2,898 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 25 | #4,027 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,243 | 28 | #3,707 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,540 | 21 | #4,546 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,924 | 17 | #5,366 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 20 | #4,743 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 27 | #3,801 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 13 | #6,160 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 17 | #4,859 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,293 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 11 | #6,325 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 12 | #5,786 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 9 | #7,019 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 15 | #4,819 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #8,005 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 8 | #6,962 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,423 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 7 | #7,272 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 6 | #7,968 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #9,044 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 7 | #6,785 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,341 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 5 | #7,146 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,420 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 5 | #4,830 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,378 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 5 | #4,108 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,791 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,316 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,331 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 5 | #4,469 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 5 | #4,428 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 7 | #3,148 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,624 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Copeland a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,479 Americans recorded as Copeland, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Copeland: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Copeland, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,479 Americans ever recorded as Copeland. The median Copeland alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 1,012 people named Copeland (230 women and girls, 782 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 872 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 267 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,110 |
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 Copeland born?
The states with the most babies named Copeland are Texas, Tennessee and Alabama, with 33% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,574 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #681 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 8 | #583 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,123 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,673 | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 6 | #872 | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 6 | #501 | 0.4× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #640 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,137 | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #637 | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Copeland with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Copeland
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 Copeland and names like it
- Compare Copeland and ZephyrBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCopeland peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Copeland since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Copeland.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Copeland alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.