Kapri
Feminine · “From Capri”
Kapri is given to both — 1,569 girls and 160 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Kapri is the American K-spelling of Capri, the limestone island off Naples that Roman emperors sailed to and twentieth-century travelers made famous. The sound carries its own lift — two beats with the weight at the end, kap-REE — and it arrives in English already attached to a real place on a map.
How old is the name Kapri?
Kapri first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Kapri is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,600 people named Kapri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Kapri most popular?
Kapri peaked in 2021, reaching #1476 nationally. Today it ranks #1500, 24 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Capreae to Kapri
The story of Kapri
The name behind Kapri belongs to a place first: Capreae to the Romans, an island the emperor Tiberius liked well enough to govern from, leaving villa ruins that still stand above the sea. Its fame traveled in the twentieth century through tourism, film and fashion — capri trousers are named for it — and the word became familiar in American English long before it became a name for children. Given names drawn straight from glamorous places are a well-worn American habit, and the swap of C for K is another, giving the spelling Kapri. It has been used quietly for girls in the United States across several decades, with most of its bearers born quite recently.
Meaningscholars disagree
From Capri, the Italian island; the island's own name is read as either 'goats' or 'wild boars'
Two serious readings compete for the island's name: Latin capra, 'goat', and Greek kapros, 'wild boar'. A third line holds that the name is older than either and came from the Etruscans, which would leave the meaning out of reach. Fossil hunters on Capri have found wild boar remains, which has kept the Greek reading in play.
How the name formed
- Capreae
- Capri
- Kapri
Related forms: Capri · Capri · Capreae
Pronouncing Kapri
kap-REE
Stress falls on the second syllable, as with the island. Some American families say KAP-ree with the weight up front; both are heard, so it is worth saying yours clearly the first time.
Nicknames for Kapri
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 2021145 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1476reached in 2021
- Change vs 2024
- +39.2%142 in 2025, from 102
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.
Kapri in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Capri in Italian — same name
- Capri in English — spelling variant
- Capreae in Latin — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Kapris among us
people named Kapri are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 11,319 born in 2025 was named Kapri
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Kapri
- #1500
- Kapri on the 2025 chart
- #413
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Kapri went to 142 girls in 2025, but Capri 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 — 1,087 places above the chart.
- Capri551
- Kapri142
About 1 girl in 2,319 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 11,319 for Kapri 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 Breeana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Kapri's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Breeana climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Breeana's path sketches the road Kapri is walking now.
Kapri sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Kapri is headed
Kapri looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 22% 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.
Kapri beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Kapri in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Short, phonetic and easy to say once heard — two syllables with no silent letters and no consonant clusters.
- The meaning is easy to explain to a child: it is the name of a real island you can point to on a map.
- Recognizable through Capri, so nobody hears it as unfamiliar even though few people carry it.
- Rare enough across the country that a Kapri will very likely be the only one in her school.
- Strongest in California, Texas and Florida, where it will sound settled rather than novel.
- The K will be corrected to C for life. Anyone who knows the island — or capri trousers — writes Capri by reflex, so expect to spell it aloud at every appointment and enrollment.
- There are commercial associations to weigh: a juice pouch brand, a car, a style of trousers. None are unpleasant, but they are what many adults think of first.
- Almost everyone carrying this name is still young, so there is no generation of grown Kapris to borrow a template from. That is freedom as much as absence.
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Frequently asked
- How many Kapris are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,600 people named Kapri are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Kapri?
- Kapri is one of 2 recorded spellings. Capri is the more common one — 551 births in 2025 against 142 for Kapri.
- How popular is the name Kapri in 2025?
- Kapri ranks #1500 among US girl names in 2025, with 142 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Kapri?
- About 1 in every 11,319 US girls born in 2025 was named Kapri — 142 in all.
- Will my child share the name Kapri with classmates?
- Kapri will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Kapri
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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