Boys' name · since 1955
Kipper
102 babies named Kipper in U.S. Social Security records since 1955, with the highest year being 1976. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 102
- total births
- 1955–2025
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 37%
- born in that decade
Kipper is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 102 have been recorded since 1955.
Kipper has 102 recorded births among boys since 1955, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1955 to 2025.
- 102 total births
- 1955–2025 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 37% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Kipper's 102 recorded births place it above 62% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Kipper's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Kipper's full recorded timeline at 1971, 51% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 49% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1955, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1976 peak of 10 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Kipper popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1955–2025
- Peak year (1976)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 71 years of records
Kipper by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Kipper's strongest decade.
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Kipper births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s 12
1950s
12 births
- 1960s
1960s
38 births
- 1970s
1970s
33 births
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
- 2020s 7
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 38 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Kipper's decade-level peak was the 1960s (38 total births); usage has since declined to 7 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1955–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Kipper: Baby Name Since 1955 - 102 Births, Peak 1976." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/kipper. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Kipper draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.