Piper — #160 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Piper

The Social Security Administration has registered 60,757 babies named Piper between 1951 and 2024, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Piper currently holds the #160 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 4,139 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Piper performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 33,085 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Piper shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,356 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Piper in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Piper in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 60,757 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.