Hopper
#9,214 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Hopper has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #9,214 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Hopper, 2025
1 in 414,000
Hopper 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Hopper?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,214
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Hopper sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hopper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Hoppers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Hopper was born before 2020 — so the typical Hopper is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 54.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 92
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 54.3% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Hopper 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
- +3,789
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −908
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,579
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.60×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 57.1%
- Peak was 2019 (14)
- Years since peak
- 6
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.3% average annual change
Spellings of Hopper
Hopper is not the most common spelling — Cooper is, with 62.5% against Hopper's 0.05%.
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.
Hopper around the world
Where Hopper 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 & Wales2022–2022#4,790in 2022
- South Australia1999–1999#539in 1999
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Hopper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Hopper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Hopper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.