Couper
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Couper has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2010, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Couper, 2020
1 in 304,000
Couper over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Couper?
Couper had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2020
- 1 in 304,000
- 11 of 3,342,313 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 157,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2020
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 210,612 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Couper sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 210,612 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Couper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Coupers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Couper was born before 2009 — so the typical Couper is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 50.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 170
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 50.6% of all recorded uses (86).
Is Couper 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 2010 (17)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 40.1% average annual change
Spellings of Couper
Couper is not the most common spelling — Cooper is, with 60.8% against Couper's 0.08%.
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.
Couper around the world
Where Couper 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.
- South Australia2005–2008#467in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Couper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Couper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Couper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.