Kipper
Kipper was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,232 among boys’ names; 102 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kipper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kipper?
#10,232 among boys’ names, 2025
Kipper entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,232 in 2025.
10 babies in 1976, the peak
Kipper peaked in 1976, when 10 boys were given it, #3,616 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 70% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,232 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,495 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,522 | 3.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,330 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,616 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #5,144 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,303 | 4.5 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,308 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,730 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,782 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 8 | #3,164 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,838 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,177 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,379 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,441 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,144 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Kipper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Kipper has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Kipper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kipper, and how old are they?
An estimated 88 Americans named Kipper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Kipper (25 women and girls, 164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 85 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.2 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).