Kuyper
#11,427 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kuyper has been given to 35 babies in the U.S. since 2014. In 2025 it ranked #11,427 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Kuyper, 2025
1 in 553,000
Kuyper 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kuyper?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,427
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kuyper 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kuyper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kuypers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kuyper was born before 2017 — so the typical Kuyper is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 68.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 35
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 68.6% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Kuyper 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
- +80
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2014 (6)
- Years since peak
- 11
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Kuyper
Kuyper is not the most common spelling — Kyler is, with 76.2% against Kuyper's 0.07%.
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.
Kuyper by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kuyper
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kuyper
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.