Capri

A girls’ name of Italian origin, meaning from the island of Capri.

Babies a year
162
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
#547
up from #572
UK popularity
#2138
13 babies

How Capri has moved

US popularity rank, 2020–2025. Lower is more popular.
#491#614#736202020232025#547

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YearUS rank
2020#680
2021#620
2022#653
2023#572
2024#572
2025#547

Capri by the numbers

In 2025, 13 babies in England and Wales were named Capri. In the US, 162 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 192 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Capri. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Cariflows like water or flowing8 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Carria form of caroline or carol, free woman
  • Camri18 in the US (2017)
  • Cairi5 in the US (2017)
  • Carriefree woman; a form of Caroline128 in the US (2017)
  • Carlifree man; a spelling variant of Carla or Carlo122 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Capri

Names that are said the same way as Capri, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

Other names that mean an island

Like Capri, each of these has an island in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Islaisland; from the river Islay1,959 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Evelynnisland; a variant spelling of Evelyn938 in the US (2017)
  • Skyesky; the Isle of Skye214 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Kelseyisland of the ship; a place name799 in the US (2017)
  • Whitneywhite island; from a place name336 in the US (2017)
  • Lindseylinden tree island; variant of Lindsey316 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Capri

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