Kaprice
Kaprice was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 383 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kaprice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kaprice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,434, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1991, the peak
Kaprice peaked in 1991, when 21 girls were given it, #4,713 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #16,434 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,736 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,783 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,566 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,726 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,038 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,849 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,434 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,326 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,841 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 13 | #8,974 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,702 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,392 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,349 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,866 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,388 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,325 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,016 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,672 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,253 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,336 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,097 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,530 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,238 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,138 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,713 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,636 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,193 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,008 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,519 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,932 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,672 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,711 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,440 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,110 | 3.0 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,661 | 7.2 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,709 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,652 | 5.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kaprice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kaprice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kaprice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kaprice, and how old are they?
An estimated 374 Americans named Kaprice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 390 people named Kaprice (352 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 371 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Kaprice?
Kaprice is a less common spelling of Caprice: SSA has recorded 383 Kaprice and 3,563 Caprice since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,946 babies since 1880, Kaprice is the second most given (9.7% 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 Kaprice
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 Kaprice and names like it
- Compare Kaprice and CapriceBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sKaprice peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kaprice since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Kaprice.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Kaprice alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with KMost given first.