Pepper — #1625 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Pepper

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,202 babies named Pepper between 1947 and 2024, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pepper currently holds the #1625 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 161 babies received it in a single year. Pepper is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 245 additional births since 1937.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pepper performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,352 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Pepper shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 315 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Pepper in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pepper 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 3,202 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.