# Cooper (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cooper/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkupɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 126,484 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 123,702 / 2,782 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,892, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 108 | 1,860 |
| 2012 | 103 | 1,921 |
| 2013 | 107 | 1,882 |
| 2014 | 122 | 1,716 |
| 2015 | 111 | 1,854 |
| 2016 | 125 | 1,704 |
| 2017 | 99 | 1,995 |
| 2018 | 109 | 1,853 |
| 2019 | 103 | 1,924 |
| 2020 | 117 | 1,721 |
| 2021 | 130 | 1,614 |
| 2022 | 145 | 1,498 |
| 2023 | 162 | 1,388 |
| 2024 | 144 | 1,505 |
| 2025 | 181 | 1,244 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,176 | 82 |
| 2012 | 5,194 | 83 |
| 2013 | 4,898 | 84 |
| 2014 | 4,851 | 86 |
| 2015 | 5,272 | 77 |
| 2016 | 4,974 | 79 |
| 2017 | 4,618 | 88 |
| 2018 | 4,473 | 83 |
| 2019 | 4,557 | 80 |
| 2020 | 4,592 | 75 |
| 2021 | 4,673 | 68 |
| 2022 | 5,631 | 53 |
| 2023 | 5,445 | 52 |
| 2024 | 5,715 | 50 |
| 2025 | 7,472 | 27 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 8 | 2,925 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2,674 |
| 2019 | 9 | 2,643 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 4 | 4,709 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 157 | 284 |
| 2012 | 258 | 211 |
| 2013 | 281 | 198 |
| 2014 | 271 | 210 |
| 2015 | 385 | 147 |
| 2016 | 390 | 147 |
| 2017 | 374 | 154 |
| 2018 | 417 | 136 |
| 2019 | 421 | 134 |
| 2020 | 340 | 156 |
| 2021 | 393 | 145 |
| 2022 | 357 | 151 |
| 2023 | 372 | 142 |
| 2024 | 384 | 139 |
| 2025 | 493 | 105 |

## People named Cooper

- Cooper Flagg, American basketball player (born 2006)
- Cooper Hoffman, American film actor
- Cooper Koch, American actor and model
- Cooper Andrews, American actor from New York (born. 1985)
- Cooper Huckabee, American actor
- Cooper Woods, Australian freestyle skier
- Cooper Kupp, American football player (born 1993)
- Cooper DeJean, American football player
- Cooper Barnes, British-American actor and producer (born 1979)
- Cooper Raiff, American filmmaker and actor
- Cooper McLeod, American speed skater
- Cooper Roth, American actor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.