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Piper

Piper: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“pipe player”
Origin
English
Say it
PY-per · 2 syllables
Used for
Girls

From an English occupational surname for a flute or pipe player. It parallels names like Harper and Carter in style.

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How popular is Piper?

2024566 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Piper in 20241,883

2024 rank#160 girls

Peak year2015

Total US babies since 188060,973

Piper has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Piper

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Oliviaolive tree · English
  • Evelyndesired; little bird · English
  • Harperharp player · English
  • Violetviolet flower · English
  • Hazelhazel tree · English
  • Ellieshort form of names ending in -el or -ella · English
  • Lilylily flower · English
  • Scarlettscarlet, bright red · English

Piper questions

What does the name Piper mean?

Piper means "pipe player". It comes from English. From an English occupational surname for a flute or pipe player. It parallels names like Harper and Carter in style.

Is Piper a boy or girl name?

Piper is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Piper?

1,883 US babies were named Piper in 2024. Its peak year was 2015.

How do you pronounce Piper?

Piper is usually pronounced PY-per.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.