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How popular is the name Piper?
Births per year, rank history and how many Pipers are alive today.
Piper (female) sits just outside the top 100 girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 212th in 2025 with 221 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2017, when 334 babies were given the name, the 166th most popular that year. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Piper you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Pipers born in England and Wales are between 5 and 12, and there are at least 4,100 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 1.3% chance that at least one of them will be called Piper.
How many babies are named Piper each year?
Where does Piper rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Piper most popular?
Piper peaked in 2017, when 334 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Piper?
At least 4,100 people named Piper born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Piper?
Most living Pipers are between 5 and 12; the most common age is about 8.
Is Piper becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.