Caprice
Caprice is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 944th, in 1966.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1966116 births
- Best rank
- #944in 1966
- Since 1949
- 3,549people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,369 girls have been named Caprice in the United States since 1949, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1966, with 116 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 116 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1986, and the 1990s alone account for 20%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 180 boys have also been given it, 5.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1966, its biggest year
Caprice was the 944th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1966 were Lisa, Kimberly, Mary, Michelle and Karen. See all of 1966.
Names that rose and fell with Caprice
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Bridgettepeak 1970
- Seanapeak 1969
- Larisapeak 1993
- Ivettepeak 1991
- Camipeak 1967
- Karinepeak 1966
- Annamariapeak 1966
- Mishellepeak 1969
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.