Pepper
A girls’ name of English origin, meaning the spice; a nickname for a spirited person.
Babies a year
128
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies
Pepper by the numbers
In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Pepper. In the US, 128 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 161 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pepper. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
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