Capri
Feminine · “From the island of Capri”
Capri is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 6,436 girls against 128 boys since 1880.
Capri is an island first, three miles of limestone in the Bay of Naples, and a name that has been said aloud by travelers for well over two thousand years. Two syllables, no silent letters, ending on that bright long -ee. It reached American ears through Roman ruins, a much-recorded 1934 song called "The Isle of Capri," and a pair of cropped trousers that took the island's name in the late 1940s.
How old is the name Capri?
Capri first appears in US birth records in 1953 — 72 years ago. The typical Capri is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 6,400 people named Capri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Capri most popular?
Capri peaked in 2025, reaching #546 nationally. Today it ranks #546, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Capreae to Capri
The story of Capri
The name belongs to a small island off the Sorrentine coast, and it was already famous in the first century, when the emperor Tiberius withdrew there and governed Rome from its cliffs. Capri stayed on the map of European travel ever after, drawing northern writers and painters through the nineteenth century, and in the twentieth it turned into shorthand for Mediterranean leisure — the 1934 song "The Isle of Capri", the cropped trousers named for the island in the late 1940s, the boats and the blue grotto. American parents began using it as a girl's name in the mid-twentieth century, quietly at first, and the great majority of Capris alive today are children.
Meaningscholars disagree
From the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples
The island's own name has two long-standing readings: Latin capreae, 'goats', which is how Roman writers understood it, and Greek kapros, 'wild boar'. A third view holds the name older than either language, inherited from a pre-Greek people of the coast. As a given name, what is certain is the place.
How the name formed
- Capreae
- CapriItalian island
- CapriEnglish given name
Related forms: Capri · Capreae · Καπρι
Pronouncing Capri
kuh-PREE
American use puts the stress on the second syllable, matching the song title most people half-remember. Italian says it the other way round, KAH-pree, with the weight up front — worth knowing if the family has Italian speakers in it.
Nicknames for Capri
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1953
- Most girls named
- 2025551 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #546reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +4.0%551 in 2025, from 530
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Capri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Capri in Italian — same name
- Capreae in Latin — related form
- Καπρι in Greek — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, New York.
Capris among us
people named Capri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 2,917 born in 2025 was named Capri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Capri
- #546
- Capri on the 2025 chart
- #413
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Capri went to 551 girls in 2025, but Kapri is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 693, which makes it the 413th most-given girls’ name of the year — 133 places above the chart.
- Capri551
- Kapri142
About 1 girl in 2,319 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 2,917 for Capri itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Maxie test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Capri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Maxie climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Maxie's path sketches the road Capri is walking now.
Capri is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Capri is headed
Capri looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 33% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Capri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Capri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two syllables, spelled exactly as it sounds, and already known worldwide as a place — no spelling out, no explaining where it comes from.
- Recognizable in Italian, English, Spanish and beyond, since the island's name travels unchanged.
- Rare enough that a Capri is unlikely to share her name with anyone in her school.
- A documented record stretching back to Roman writers, which few modern-sounding names can claim.
- Capri Sun has been in American lunchboxes for decades, and some children will make the joke. It tends to be a short-lived one, but it will happen.
- It is a place name, so it may occasionally be heard as a destination rather than a person — the same trade-off carried by Florence, Siena and Georgia.
- Use is climbing steadily rather than holding flat, so the name may feel less unusual by the time she is grown than it does now.
- No short form is firmly established, which means the family will settle on one themselves — or use the full name always.
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Feminine · #546 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Capris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,400 people named Capri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Capri?
- Capri is the most-used spelling in US records — 551 of the 693 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Kapri.
- How popular is the name Capri in 2025?
- Capri ranks #546 among US girl names in 2025, with 551 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Capri?
- About 1 in every 2,917 US girls born in 2025 was named Capri — 551 in all.
- Will my child share the name Capri with classmates?
- Capri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Capri
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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