girls:
58.9k births since 1951
#525 (91st percentile)
boys:
210 births since 1997
#4376 (5th percentile)
overall:
59.1k births since 1951
#972 (87th percentile)
The name Piper is the #972 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 59,071 recorded births since 1951. This represents the 87.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #525 (90.8% percentile) for all time with 58,861 births since 1951. For boys, it ranks #4,376 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 210 births since 1997.
Piper first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1951 (1951 for girls and 1997 for boys).
The name Piper has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Piper reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 93.2% percentile (ranked #66) with 2,042 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 2,122 births per million (ranked 93.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Piper ranks #130 for girls (86.4% percentile) with 1,181 births per million, which is 55.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Piper reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #889) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Piper".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Piper is pronounced as PAI-per, which has 2 syllables.
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