Trooper
Boy · TROO-per · English
Trooper is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “cavalry soldier”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Trooper mean?
English: English word trooper
“cavalry soldier”
From the English word for a cavalry soldier, also used in the US for a state police officer.
- Say it
- TROO-per
Is Trooper a girl's or a boy's name?
Trooper is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Trooper in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Trooper, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2015, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had more boys named Trooper than any year since 2019.
Half of all the boys named Trooper in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Trooper in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 7 | #9,888 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,699 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 16 | #5,503 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,021 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 14 | #5,939 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,081 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,432 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,623 |
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