Fun Facts About the Name Kooper
- More than 4 thousand babies named Kooper: U.S. records list 4,391 babies given the name Kooper from 1880 through 2025. Even 380 girls received the name Kooper - about 1 girl for every 11 boys.
What Does the Name Kooper Mean?
Kooper is a respelling of the English name Cooper, an occupational name meaning "barrel maker" or "maker of casks and tubs." The parent surname comes from Middle English couper, an agent noun for someone who made and repaired wooden barrels and other containers. That Middle English term was borrowed from Middle Dutch cuper or Middle Low German kuper, both formed from words such as cupe and kupe, meaning "cask" or "barrel." Those in turn trace to Latin cupa, "barrel, cask." The Kooper spelling keeps the surname's pronunciation but replaces the usual C with a K while keeping the oo; it does not have a separate meaning of its own. The literal sense is an occupation, not a personal trait or a symbolic quality.
Kooper Name History & Origins
The name behind Kooper is the English surname Cooper. In medieval England, a cooper was a craftsman who made barrels, casks, tubs, and other wooden vessels held together by hoops. Because this was a common trade, the occupational term became a surname. Hereditary surnames developed in England mainly from the late Middle Ages onward, and Cooper is found in medieval and later records in forms such as Couper, Cuper, and Cowper. The trade word itself came into English from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German, a reminder that barrel-making terminology moved with commerce and craft between northern Europe and England.
As a first name, Cooper belongs to the broad English-language practice of using surnames as given names. Kooper is a spelling variant of that given name, with the K reflecting a respelling rather than a different root. It is used in the United States and other English-speaking places, but it is not the traditional English surname spelling. Dutch has a similar-looking word koper (meaning "buyer" or "copper"), and Dutch and German surnames such as Kuiper, Kuper, and Koper are connected to the same barrel-making trade; those forms have their own linguistic histories and should not be folded into the Cooper etymology without evidence.
How Popular is the Name Kooper?
Kooper recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 2022. Its best rank was #980 in 2022.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #4,822 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2024 | #7,406 | 15 | 0.0009% |
| 2023 | #7,095 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2022 | #4,974 | 27 | 0.0016% |
| 2021 | #5,485 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2020 | #8,689 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2019 | #7,196 | 16 | 0.0010% |
| 2018 | #4,831 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2017 | #5,752 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 2016 | #8,212 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #6,593 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2014 | #4,963 | 28 | 0.0016% |
| 2013 | #6,601 | 19 | 0.0011% |
| 2012 | #5,643 | 24 | 0.0014% |
| 2011 | #6,993 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2010 | #8,519 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2009 | #8,685 | 14 | 0.0008% |
| 2008 | #13,241 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| 2007 | #9,876 | 12 | 0.0006% |
| 2006 | #18,734 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2005 | #10,560 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2004 | #12,236 | 8 | 0.0004% |
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,024 | 218 | 0.0128% |
| 2024 | #1,082 | 201 | 0.0117% |
| 2023 | #1,017 | 215 | 0.0126% |
| 2022 | #980 | 230 | 0.0132% |
| 2021 | #1,097 | 191 | 0.0109% |
| 2020 | #1,112 | 177 | 0.0103% |
| 2019 | #1,098 | 181 | 0.0101% |
| 2018 | #1,064 | 190 | 0.0105% |
| 2017 | #1,083 | 181 | 0.0098% |
| 2016 | #1,084 | 182 | 0.0096% |
| 2015 | #1,014 | 201 | 0.0105% |
| 2014 | #1,084 | 178 | 0.0093% |
| 2013 | #1,037 | 186 | 0.0098% |
| 2012 | #1,046 | 183 | 0.0096% |
| 2011 | #1,094 | 170 | 0.0090% |
| 2010 | #1,125 | 167 | 0.0087% |
| 2009 | #1,088 | 171 | 0.0086% |
| 2008 | #1,190 | 149 | 0.0073% |
| 2007 | #1,340 | 126 | 0.0061% |
| 2006 | #1,569 | 94 | 0.0046% |
| 2005 | #1,601 | 86 | 0.0043% |
| 2004 | #2,065 | 58 | 0.0029% |
| 2003 | #2,093 | 54 | 0.0027% |
| 2002 | #2,989 | 31 | 0.0016% |
| 2001 | #2,137 | 49 | 0.0025% |
| 2000 | #3,713 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 1999 | #3,240 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 1998 | #3,656 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 1997 | #4,370 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 1996 | #4,518 | 14 | 0.0007% |
| 1995 | #5,355 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1994 | #5,287 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 1993 | #4,595 | 13 | 0.0007% |
| 1992 | #7,999 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1990 | #8,877 | 5 | 0.0002% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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