Piper
Piper stands at #155 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. First recorded 1951, best year 2015, 62,718 bearers across the whole run.
Piper’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Piper, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Piper since 1951
Piper peaked in 2015 at #67; #155 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Piper is most common
The state that gives Piper most often, per girls born there, is Vermont (0.92% in 2025); Wyoming and Montana are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Piper
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Phoebe
#157 in 2025
Peyton
#199 in 2025
Presley
#225 in 2025
Palmer
#232 in 2025
Parker
#102 in 2025
Paisley
#67 in 2025
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jaxson
#156 in 2025
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About Piper
How common is Piper today?
Piper stands at #155 nationally in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. Every point on the chart is the SSA's own count, back to 1951.
Does Piper have a meaning on record?
Honestly: our cited sources are silent on Piper, and we would rather show you nothing than something made up.
Is there a sibling name for Piper?
Phoebe, Peyton and Presley sit nearest to Piper on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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