Capricia

Girls' name

Form of Caprice

Capricia has been given to 267 babies in the U.S. since 1966. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Capricia, 1997

1 in 518,000

Capricia over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Capricia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Caprice

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Capricia means

Capricia is a form of Caprice.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Capricia is used in English (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Capricia → Caprice. The family’s meaning is “impulse”, recorded in the naming reference for Caprice.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Caprice.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 267 girls were recorded with the name Capricia between 1966 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1991; its best national rank was #3,663 in 1971.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Capricia?

Capricia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997: 1 in 518,000; 7 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only: 1 in 249,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 358,920 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Capricia 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 1997 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 358,920 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Capricia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Capricias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Capricia was born before 1981 — so the typical Capricia is around 44 today.

Median birth year: 1981; About 44 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 77.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 267; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (94).

Is Capricia 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: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1991 (19)
Years since peak: 34; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,663; 1971

Spellings of Capricia

Capricia is not the most common spelling — Patricia is, with 99.4% against Capricia's 0.02%.

Patricia99.4%1,573,623
Latricia0.35%5,621
Caprice0.21%3,383
Mauricia0.03%530
Capricia0.02%267

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.

Capricia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,663; 1971
Peak year: 1991; 19 that year
First recorded: 1966
Last recorded: 1997
All-time count: 267
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Capricia

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

Caprecia Caprisha Morticia Capitola Capucine Captola Capriana Analucia Annalucia Julicia Lucrecia Ortencia Katricia Dionicia Jessicia Phelicia Veroncia Alencia Lacrecia Latrecia Capria Eustacia Philicia Letricia

Sibling names for Capricia

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

For a sister

Shaniqua Devan Ileana Amberly Iesha Elvia Kacy Maegan

For a brother

Shay Jamil Laron Paris Dejuan Rico Malcom German

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