Pepper
Pepper is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 127 births. Its best rank was 956th, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1270.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2014161 births
- Best rank
- #956in 1975
- Since 1947
- 3,447people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,202 girls have been named Pepper in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 161 births.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2014, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2013, and the 2010s alone account for 42%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 245 boys have also been given it, 7.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2014, its biggest year
Pepper was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Pepper
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosalynnpeak 2020
- Kamilahpeak 2019
- Cristelpeak 2011
- Lucianapeak 2024
- Krishapeak 2017
- Luciannapeak 2024
- Octoberpeak 2008
- Neemapeak 2019
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.