girls:
3.4k births since 1949
#2986 (48th percentile)
boys:
180 births since 1973
#4406 (4th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1949
#4594 (41st percentile)
The name Caprice is the #4,594 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,549 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 40.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,986 (47.8% percentile) for all time with 3,369 births since 1949. For boys, it ranks #4,406 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 180 births since 1973.
Caprice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for girls and 1973 for boys).
The name Caprice has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Caprice reached its peak popularity in 1966, achieving the 15.0% percentile (ranked #630) with 66 births per million. The name was most common in 1966, with 66 births per million (ranked 15.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2014, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Caprice ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 8.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Caprice reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #638) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caprice".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Caprice is pronounced as kuh-PREES, which has 2 syllables.
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