Topper

#7,143 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Topper has been given to 53 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #7,143 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Topper, 2025

1 in 276,000

Topper over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,143
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Topper sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Topper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Toppers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Topper was born before 2021 — so the typical Topper is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
69.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
90.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
53
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Choose a decade

2020s — 69.8% of all recorded uses (37).

Is Topper 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
+3,675
Places climbed
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
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (12)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,323
1954

Spellings of Topper

Topper is not the most common spelling — Cooper is, with 95.6% against Topper's 0.04%.

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.

Topper by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,323
1954
Peak year
2025
12 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
53
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Topper

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

Sibling names for Topper

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

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