Trapper — #4751 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Trapper

The Social Security Administration has registered 979 babies named Trapper between 1975 and 2024, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Trapper currently holds the #4751 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 41 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Trapper performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 294 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Trapper shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alaska. In total, SSA state-level files list Trapper in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Trapper 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 979 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.