Piper

#155 for girls in 2025, 1,940 births · Last seen for boys in 2024 at #10,938
Given to girls 99.7% of the time

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Peak · girls
2015 · 4,140 births
Debut · girls
11 births
In top 100 · girls
10 yrs
of 146 years
Total births · girls
62,718
since 1951

Piper over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201951peak #67, 2015girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1551,940—
2024#1591,884#10,9386
2023#1352,075—
2022#1142,495—
2021#962,741#8,8258
2020#912,902#12,0225
2019#843,188—
2018#883,230#8,8198
2017#813,567#7,54610
2016#673,956#6,72612
2015#674,140#5,99914
2014#753,868#7,04811
2013#973,191#9,6557
2012#983,073#5,48216
2011#1102,737#8,0799
2010#1442,142#6,35913
2009#1472,191#9,8647
2008#1721,913#12,5535
2007#2401,483—
2006#2451,385#7,42710
2005#2591,261#5,87513
2004#2661,214#7,5369
2003#343902#8,6437
2002#448643#7,0559
2001#411705#7,5368
2000#511522#7,4168
1999#696324#6,5309
1998#1,176159#7,5607
1997#1,061179#9,2655
1996#1,219145—
1995#1,55098—
1994#1,71486—
1993#1,92273—
1992#2,15662—
1991#2,11163—
1990#2,08163—
1989#2,22254—
1988#2,74438—
1987#1,96257—
1986#2,11650—
1985#1,88259—
1984#1,92254—
1983#1,90754—
1982#1,85058—
1981#1,64170—
1980#1,50279—
1979#1,60570—
1978#1,33290—
1977#1,33186—
1976#1,74754—
1975#1,49868—
1974#1,44869—
1973#1,41869—
1972#1,43268—
1971#1,53464—
1970#1,31581—
1969#1,53160—
1968#1,24477—
1967#1,44159—
1966#1,35165—
1965#1,56151—
1964#1,34470—
1963#1,64948—
1962#1,70844—
1961#2,07032—
1960#2,36925—
1959#2,33924—
1958#1,70340—
1957#1,70540—
1956#1,73837—
1955#1,87732—
1954#1,70236—
1953#1,54940—
1952#1,64135—
1951#3,28411—
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Piper! It came in at #3,284, and was given to 11 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.

Where Piper is popular in 1951

No state had 5 or more girls named Piper in 1951, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Piper
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 4 spots since 2024 (#159 → #155)
  • 64 spots since 2020 (#91 → #155)
  • 88 spots since 2015 (#67 → #155)
  • Biggest jump: 480 spots in 1999 (#1,176 → #696)
  • Biggest drop: 37 spots in 2002 (#411 → #448)
Rise & fade · girls
64 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 2015 at #67 (4,140 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 100 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2012–2021
  • Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 431
  • Highest: 1 in 431 girls born in 2015 were named Piper (0.23%)
  • Latest: 1 in 828 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 52.8% of all girls named Piper (33,092) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s295#1,549 (1953)#1,949
1960s531#1,244 (1968)#1,627
1970s719#1,315 (1970)#1,466
1980s573#1,502 (1980)#1,975
1990s1,252#696 (1999)#1,569
2000s12,219#147 (2009)#304
2010s33,092#67 (2015)#91
2020s14,037#91 (2020)#125

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Piper in 1951

girls
#3,284
11 births · 1 in 163,714 girls

Top girls' names in 1951

  1. #1Linda73,982
  2. #2Mary65,721
  3. #3Patricia56,446
  4. #4Deborah42,053
  5. #5Barbara40,617
  6. #6Susan40,228
  7. #7Nancy30,346
  8. #8Karen27,998
  9. #9Sandra27,665
  10. #10Kathleen26,716
  11. #3,284Piper11
More about 1951

girls

1,800,859 girls got a published name in 1951; 1 in 163,714 of them was named Piper, which outranked 47.1% of the 6,213 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Piper
  1. #3,106Willma12
  2. #3,106Wynell12
  3. #3,106Zula12
  4. #3,284Piper11
  5. #3,284Aaron11
  6. #3,284Alise11
  7. #3,284Alona11
  8. #3,482Aleda10
  9. #3,482Aloma10
  10. #3,482Alton10

Tied with 197 names at #3,284; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1950
Risers
  1. ↑ 345Rhona#1,333 → #988
  2. ↑ 307Bobbi#1,153 → #846
  3. ↑ 296Ricki#1,090 → #794
  4. ↑ 295Mindy#771 → #476
  5. ↑ 288Sharleen#1,053 → #765
Fallers
  1. ↓ 395Sharman#668 → #1,063
  2. ↓ 343Manuela#773 → #1,116
  3. ↓ 294Allie#945 → #1,239
  4. ↓ 253Merrie#937 → #1,190
  5. ↓ 252Olive#891 → #1,143

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1951 →