Piper Girl
How popular is Piper?
#155 girl name in 2025
1,940 baby girls were named Piper in the US in 2025, making it the 155th most popular girl name.
Piper popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #155 for girls (▲ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,940 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-53% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #67 in 2015, #91 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2015 (4,140 girls) |
| Highest rank | #67 in 2015 (2 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1951 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Piper counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Piper family of names ranked #167 for girls in 2025 (#176 the year before), with 1,999 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Piper | 1,940 | 97% |
| Pyper | 59 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Piper is most popular
Babies named Piper per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Vermont: 9.9 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Montana: 5.8 per 1,000 (79 girls)
- Maine: 5.4 per 1,000 (83 girls)
- Wyoming: 4.7 per 1,000 (20 girls)
- South Dakota: 4.6 per 1,000 (65 girls)
Piper by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 295 | #1,548 |
| 1960s | 531 | #1,244 |
| 1970s | 719 | #1,315 |
| 1980s | 573 | #1,502 |
| 1990s | 1,252 | #695 |
| 2000s | 12,219 | #147 |
| 2010s | 33,092 | #67 |
| 2020s | 14,037 | #91 |
Girl names about as popular as Piper
Questions
- Is Piper a boy or girl name?
- Piper is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Piper were girls.
- How popular is the name Piper?
- 1,940 baby girls were named Piper in the US in 2025, making it the 155th most popular girl name.
- When was Piper most popular?
- Piper peaked in 2015, when 4,140 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #67, held for 2 years starting in 2015.
- How many people are named Piper?
- 62,934 babies have been named Piper in the US since 1880. We estimate about 62,413 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Piper most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Piper was most common in Vermont, at 9.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.