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Cookie vs Coopar

American parents have registered 573 Cookies since 1880, against 14 Coopars. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Cookie against Coopar, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Cookie Coopar

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 43 years in which either name was published, Cookie for 42 years and Coopar for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Cookie Coopar
Total US births 57314
Most in one year 3514
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 46014
Median age today 6715
Peak year 19582010
Best rank 1,856th girls6,036th boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19402010
Girls / boys 573 / 00 / 14

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Cookies alive today are over 67; half the Coopars are over 15. That is 52 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Cookie and Coopar.