Names/P

Piper

girls’ nameFallingCompare

Piper is ranked 160th among girls in 2024 (1,877 births). Its best rank was 67th, in 2015–2016.

Rank in 2024
#160down 25 from 2023
Births in 2024
1,8770.12% of girls
Peak year
20154,139 births
Best rank
#67first in 2015
Since 1951
60,757people given the name
Babies named Piper, by year of birthgirls
01.3k2.5k3.8k5k18801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

60,757 girls have been named Piper in the United States since 1951, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 4,139 births — 0.23% of all girls recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 75 → 160).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 54%. It has spent 26 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Piper
1950s295
1960s531
1970s719
1980s574
1990s1,252
2000s12,219
2010s33,085
2020s12,082

In 2015, its biggest year

Piper was the 67th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Piper

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.