Copper
Copper is given to both girls and boys: 12 girls and 42 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,477 among girls’ names and #2,946 among boys’, #5,353 among all names counting both); 592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Copper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Copper?
#2,946 among boys’ names, 2025
Copper rose from #4,573 in 2015 to #2,946 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 24.6 per million.
54 babies in 2025, the peak
Copper peaked in 2025, when 54 babies were given it (42 boys, #2,946 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 25 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,477 | 42 | #2,946 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,561 | 25 | #4,218 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,113 | 37 | #3,237 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,046 | 29 | #3,787 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,868 | 28 | #3,826 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,448 | 32 | #3,431 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,434 | 20 | #4,828 |
| 2018 | 10 | #9,977 | 12 | #6,770 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,527 | 22 | #4,493 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,551 | 30 | #3,608 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,623 | 21 | #4,573 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,302 | 25 | #4,031 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,137 | 13 | #6,310 |
| 2012 | 5 | #17,464 | 19 | #4,891 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 12 | #6,658 | |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,398 | 12 | #6,756 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 9 | #8,423 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 11 | #7,290 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #9,955 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 11 | #6,992 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,062 | 7 | #9,295 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 5 | #10,879 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,292 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,757 | under 5 |
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 Copper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 592 Americans recorded as Copper, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Copper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Copper, and how old are they?
An estimated 587 Americans named Copper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 715 people named Copper (182 women and girls, 533 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 340 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 131,725 babies since 1880, Copper is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 54 of their 7,953 babies (<1%), again the third most given.
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 Copper
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 Copper and names like it
- Compare Copper and CooperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sCopper peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Copper since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Copper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Copper alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.