Spellings
Cooper or Kooper?
In the US in 2025, 97% of babies in this name family were spelled Cooper and 3% Kooper. Same name, slightly different impression: here are the figures for each spelling.
Ten years ago
Cooper already led in 2015, with 96% of the family's births; it has 97% in 2025. All spellings together, the family went from 5,473 to 7,690 births (+41%).
| Spelling | 2015 | 2025 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooper | 5,272 | 7,472 | +42% |
| Kooper | 201 | 218 | +8% |
How they sound
All of these spellings are said the same way: /ˈkupər/ (KOO-pur). So the choice is about how it looks: it is the spelling people will read on a birth card, a name tag or an email address, and the one your child will sometimes spell out.
In France
In France in 2025: Cooper 5 births. The other spellings are not given there often enough to be counted.
Sources: Social Security Administration (SSA), Insee (France), 2025 data. How we calculate these figures.
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