Hooper — boys' name

What the Data Says About Hooper

The Social Security Administration has registered 116 babies named Hooper between 1914 and 2023, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Hooper currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1914, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Hooper performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 41 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Hooper shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Tennessee, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Hooper in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Hooper 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 116 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.