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Caprice

#7,563 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Impulse

Caprice has been given to 3,563 babies in the U.S. since 1949. In 2025 it ranked #7,563 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 116 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Caprice, 2025

1 in 237,000

Caprice over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Caprice over time

In 2025, Caprice went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19492025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Caprice: meaning, origin, and history

Impulse

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Caprice means

Caprice means “impulse”.

Origin, language, and formation

Caprice is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,383 girls were recorded with the name Caprice between 1949 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 116 in 1966; its best national rank was #944 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,375 in 2020 to #7,563 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,084 in 2015 to #7,563 in 2025.

In the United States, 180 boys were recorded with the name Caprice between 1973 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 12 in 1998; its best national rank was #3,040 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Caprice?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,563
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Caprice sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Caprice. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Caprices were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Caprice was born before 1986 — so the typical Caprice is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,376
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (676).

Is Caprice rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,188
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,479
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.39×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.1%
Peak was 1966 (116)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#944
1966

Spellings of Caprice

Caprice is not the most common spelling — Carrie is, with 62.1% against Caprice's 0.79%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Caprice is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Caprice was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 88,722 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caprice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Caprice is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Caprice was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,706,895 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Caprice has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Caprice around the world

Where Caprice ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2021
    #3,961
    in 2021
  • Scotland
    1997–2008
    #793
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2007
    #413
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    1998–1998
    #498
    in 1998
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1963–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Caprice

People whose public names include Caprice, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Caprice by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,563
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,188
Best rank ever
#944
1966
Peak year
1966
116 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,383
Count in 2025
14

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,040
1973
Peak year
1998
12 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
180
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Caprice

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Caprice

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Caprice, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Caprice

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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