Meaning not yet researched.
Piper: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,940 in 2025. Its best rank was #67 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #67 in 2016; #155 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Piper in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#155 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #67.
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Piper: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,940 girls in 2025. Peak: #67 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 4,140 (2015).
In 2025, 1,940 US girls were named Piper, making it the 155th most common girls’ name of the year, up 4 places from #159 in 2024. That is 56 more than the 1,884 girls named Piper in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #67, reached in 2016. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,140, in 2015. For comparison, it was #67 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Piper in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1951 with 11 babies. In all, 62,934 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 33,192 babies named Piper.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 27,978 US girls were named Piper; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,956. In 2025 that was about 1 in 828 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Piper ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #42 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 12 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Pepper (3,551 babies since 1880) and Pyper (3,307 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Pieper, Pipper and Pypper are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Pieper (193), Pipper (41), Pypper (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Piper in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 3 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 26 | #42 | #36 |
| Montana | 16 | #45 | #19 |
| Vermont | 9 | #45 | #13 |
| Alabama | 58 | #61 | #59 |
| New Hampshire | 17 | #65 | #23 |
| Maine | 14 | #71 | #21 |
| Utah | 53 | #73 | #52 |
| Washington | 70 | #84 | #49 |
| Kentucky | 46 | #89 | #33 |
| Minnesota | 56 | #92 | #27 |
| Mississippi | 24 | #95 | #60 |
| Wyoming | 5 | #99 | #37 |
| Ohio | 97 | #101 | #47 |
| Alaska | 7 | #106 | #26 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #109 | #18 |
| Iowa | 29 | #109 | #20 |
| Idaho | 19 | #110 | #23 |
| Missouri | 50 | #115 | #43 |
| Nebraska | 19 | #116 | #28 |
| Tennessee | 64 | #117 | #52 |
| Connecticut | 25 | #117 | #82 |
| Arkansas | 25 | #117 | #20 |
| South Carolina | 38 | #118 | #46 |
| North Carolina | 83 | #120 | #55 |
| Oregon | 28 | #123 | #39 |
| Michigan | 66 | #126 | #65 |
| Wisconsin | 41 | #134 | #41 |
| Georgia | 69 | #143 | #61 |
| Louisiana | 29 | #146 | #49 |
| Virginia | 53 | #149 | #70 |
| Indiana | 46 | #150 | #23 |
| Illinois | 65 | #153 | #77 |
| North Dakota | 7 | #154 | #14 |
| Kansas | 21 | #160 | #46 |
| Delaware | 6 | #161 | #35 |
| Massachusetts | 35 | #162 | #131 |
| Maryland | 31 | #167 | #87 |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | #175 | #72 |
| Colorado | 34 | #176 | #41 |
| South Dakota | 7 | #183 | #25 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #185 | — |
| Florida | 83 | #229 | #84 |
| Texas | 140 | #250 | #110 |
| Arizona | 28 | #262 | #107 |
| New York | 60 | #280 | #169 |
| New Jersey | 29 | #294 | #195 |
| California | 100 | #326 | #185 |
| Nevada | 5 | #586 | #86 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,940 | #155 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,884 | #159 | 6 | #11,988 |
| 2023 | 2,075 | #135 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,495 | #114 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,741 | #96 | 8 | #9,477 |
| 2020 | 2,902 | #91 | 5 | #13,564 |
| 2019 | 3,188 | #84 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,230 | #88 | 8 | #9,447 |
| 2017 | 3,567 | #81 | 10 | #7,991 |
| 2016 | 3,956 | #67 | 12 | #7,037 |
| 2015 | 4,140 | #67 | 14 | #6,229 |
| 2014 | 3,868 | #75 | 11 | #7,421 |
| 2013 | 3,191 | #97 | 7 | #10,450 |
| 2012 | 3,073 | #98 | 16 | #5,664 |
| 2011 | 2,737 | #110 | 9 | #8,601 |
| 2010 | 2,142 | #144 | 13 | #6,616 |
| 2009 | 2,191 | #147 | 7 | #10,682 |
| 2008 | 1,913 | #172 | 5 | #14,098 |
| 2007 | 1,483 | #240 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,385 | #246 | 10 | #7,861 |
| 2005 | 1,261 | #259 | 13 | #6,130 |
| 2004 | 1,214 | #266 | 9 | #8,013 |
| 2003 | 902 | #343 | 7 | #9,364 |
| 2002 | 643 | #448 | 9 | #7,478 |
| 2001 | 705 | #411 | 8 | #8,116 |
| 2000 | 522 | #511 | 8 | #8,004 |
| 1999 | 324 | #698 | 9 | #6,953 |
| 1998 | 159 | #1,177 | 7 | #8,227 |
| 1997 | 179 | #1,065 | 5 | #10,399 |
| 1996 | 145 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1995 | 98 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1993 | 73 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,176 | — | — |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1989 | 54 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,981 | — | — |
| 1986 | 50 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,937 | — | — |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1979 | 70 | #1,621 | — | — |
| 1978 | 90 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,768 | — | — |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1974 | 69 | #1,458 | — | — |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1972 | 68 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1970 | 81 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1969 | 60 | #1,541 | — | — |
| 1968 | 77 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 1967 | 59 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1966 | 65 | #1,363 | — | — |
| 1965 | 51 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 1964 | 70 | #1,348 | — | — |
| 1963 | 48 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1962 | 44 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1960 | 25 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,383 | — | — |
| 1958 | 40 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,722 | — | — |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,442 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).