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
- Peak · girls
- 2015 · 4,140 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 10 yrsof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 62,718since 1951
Piper over time
Rank among girls' names. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #155 | 1,940 | — | |
| 2024 | #159 | 1,884 | #10,938 | 6 |
| 2023 | #135 | 2,075 | — | |
| 2022 | #114 | 2,495 | — | |
| 2021 | #96 | 2,741 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #91 | 2,902 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #84 | 3,188 | — | |
| 2018 | #88 | 3,230 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | #81 | 3,567 | #7,546 | 10 |
| 2016 | #67 | 3,956 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #67 | 4,140 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #75 | 3,868 | #7,048 | 11 |
| 2013 | #97 | 3,191 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #98 | 3,073 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #110 | 2,737 | #8,079 | 9 |
| 2010 | #144 | 2,142 | #6,359 | 13 |
| 2009 | #147 | 2,191 | #9,864 | 7 |
| 2008 | #172 | 1,913 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #240 | 1,483 | — | |
| 2006 | #245 | 1,385 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #259 | 1,261 | #5,875 | 13 |
| 2004 | #266 | 1,214 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #343 | 902 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #448 | 643 | #7,055 | 9 |
| 2001 | #411 | 705 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #511 | 522 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #696 | 324 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #1,176 | 159 | #7,560 | 7 |
| 1997 | #1,061 | 179 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #1,219 | 145 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,550 | 98 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,714 | 86 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,922 | 73 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,156 | 62 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,111 | 63 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,081 | 63 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,222 | 54 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,744 | 38 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,962 | 57 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,116 | 50 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,882 | 59 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,922 | 54 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,907 | 54 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,641 | 70 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,502 | 79 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,605 | 70 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,332 | 90 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,331 | 86 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,747 | 54 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,498 | 68 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,448 | 69 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,418 | 69 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,432 | 68 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,534 | 64 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,315 | 81 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,531 | 60 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,244 | 77 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,441 | 59 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,351 | 65 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,561 | 51 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,344 | 70 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,649 | 48 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,708 | 44 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,369 | 25 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,339 | 24 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,703 | 40 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,705 | 40 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,738 | 37 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,877 | 32 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,702 | 36 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,549 | 40 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,641 | 35 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,284 | 11 | — | |
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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.
See more about Piper
- 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)
- Debuted 1951
- Peaked 2015 at #67 (4,140 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 10 yrs · run 2012–2021
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1999–2025
- Highest: 1 in 431 girls born in 2015 were named Piper (0.23%)
- Latest: 1 in 828 girls born in 2025 (0.12%)
- 52.8% of all girls named Piper (33,092) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 295 | #1,549 (1953) | #1,949 |
| 1960s | 531 | #1,244 (1968) | #1,627 |
| 1970s | 719 | #1,315 (1970) | #1,466 |
| 1980s | 573 | #1,502 (1980) | #1,975 |
| 1990s | 1,252 | #696 (1999) | #1,569 |
| 2000s | 12,219 | #147 (2009) | #304 |
| 2010s | 33,092 | #67 (2015) | #91 |
| 2020s | 14,037 | #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 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 11,113 of them was named Piper, which outranked 92.9% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 273,052 of them was named Piper, which outranked 33.2% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).