Capucine

Girls' name

Nasturtium

Capucine has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1965, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Capucine, 2008

1 in 491,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Capucine: meaning, origin, and history

Nasturtium

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Capucine means

Capucine means “nasturtium”, associated with capucine.

Origin, language, and formation

Capucine is used in French.

Capucine is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Capucine is pronounced /ka.py.sin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 107 girls were recorded with the name Capucine between 1961 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1965; its best national rank was #3,419 in 1965.

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 Capucine?

Capucine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008: 1 in 491,000; 8 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only: 1 in 236,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 340,573 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Capucine 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 2008 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 340,573 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Capucine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Capucines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Capucine was born before 1968 — so the typical Capucine is around 57 today.

Median birth year: 1968; About 57 years old
Biggest decade: 1960s; 61.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 7.5%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 107; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1960s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Capucine 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 1965 (14)
Years since peak: 60; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 48.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,419; 1965

Capucine around the world

Where Capucine 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
1996–2019
#4,686
in 2019
France
1959–2025
#63
in 2025
Canada
1996–2021
#3,354
in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Capucine 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: #3,419; 1965
Peak year: 1965; 14 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 2008
All-time count: 107
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Capucine

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

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Sibling names for Capucine

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

Sarita Kandy Bettina Lanette Zina Kenneth Rona Vonda

For a brother

Darron Daron Kip Deron Daren Tad Richie Kennedy

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