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Boy's name · #27 in the US (2025) · Trending
97% boys · 3% girls — Cooper is also given to girls: 181 in 2025, about 1 in 40 in recent years. Cooper →
Cooper is climbing: on the charts since 1882, it reached #27 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 7,500 boys given the name last year. Roughly 124,000 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#15 in New Zealand (2025) · #19 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #20 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #39 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #80 in Scotland (2025) · #105 in England & Wales (2025) · #138 in N. Ireland (2025) · #199 in Ireland (2025) · #915 in Netherlands (2025) · #1,447 in Sweden (2025) · #2,058 in Switzerland (2025) · #77 in Canada (2024).
It is also an American family name — about 281,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 160 notable people named Cooper:
Sports figures appear 3.18× more often than among typical names — e.g. Cooper Flagg, American basketball player (born 2006).
A popular twin pairing with Cooper is Carter for a boy.
Similar names: Brooks · Colton · Carter · Archer · Ryder · Tucker
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