Piper
Piper was given to 1,940 girls in 2025, #155 among girls’ names; 62,934 Americans have been recorded with it since 1951 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 62,300 Americans named Piper and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Piper by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Piper mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Piper is “a female given name transferred from the surname, used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.”
/ˈpaɪpə(ɹ)/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Piper?
#155 among girls’ names, 2025
Piper fell from #67 in 2015 to #155 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.3 to 1.2 per 1,000.
4,154 babies in 2015, the peak
Piper peaked in 2015, when 4,154 babies were given it (4,140 girls, #67 among girls’ names). The 1,940 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,940 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 1,884 | #159 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 2,075 | #135 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,495 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 2,741 | #96 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 2,902 | #91 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 3,188 | #84 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 3,230 | #88 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 3,567 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 3,956 | #67 | 2.2 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 4,140 | #67 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 3,868 | #75 | 2.2 |
| 2013 | 3,191 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 2012 | 3,073 | #98 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 2,737 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 2,142 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 2,191 | #147 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 1,913 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,483 | #240 | 0.77 |
| 2006 | 1,385 | #246 | 0.73 |
| 2005 | 1,261 | #259 | 0.68 |
| 2004 | 1,214 | #266 | 0.66 |
| 2003 | 902 | #343 | 0.49 |
| 2002 | 643 | #448 | 0.36 |
| 2001 | 705 | #411 | 0.39 |
| 2000 | 522 | #511 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 324 | #697 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 159 | #1,175 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 179 | #1,064 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 145 | #1,219 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,553 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,930 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,171 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,121 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,089 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,235 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,776 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,980 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,143 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,894 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,937 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,922 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,866 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,657 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,513 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,621 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 90 | #1,337 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,334 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,768 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,511 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,458 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,428 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,443 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,540 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 81 | #1,319 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,541 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,256 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,456 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,363 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,572 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 70 | #1,348 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,102 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,417 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,382 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,721 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,754 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,900 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,441 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Piper a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Piper has been given almost only to girls: 216 boys in 75 years of records.
Girls and boys named Piper: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Piper, and how old are they?
62,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 62,934 Americans ever recorded as Piper. The median Piper alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 46,877 people named Piper (46,597 women and girls, 280 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 49,151 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 422 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 39,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Piper born?
The states with the most babies named Piper are Texas, California and Ohio, with 17% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 140 | #250 | 0.7× |
| California | 100 | #326 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 97 | #101 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 83 | #229 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 83 | #120 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 70 | #84 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 69 | #143 | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 66 | #126 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 65 | #153 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | #175 | 0.9× |
Where Piper is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Piper is most over-represented in Montana: since 1951 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Piper with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 66,917 babies since 1880, Piper is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,940 of their 1,999 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Piper
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Piper and names like it
- Compare Piper and PyperBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPiper peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Piper since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Piper: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Piper.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Piper alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.