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Pyper

#2,884 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Piper

Pyper has been given to 3,307 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #2,884 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 275 recorded.

Babies named Pyper, 2025

1 in 56,200

Pyper over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pyper: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Piper

surname transfer

What Pyper means

Pyper is a variant of Piper.

Origin, language, and formation

Pyper is used in English. Its origins include surname transfer.

Pyper is recorded as a surname transferred into given-name use.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Piper.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,307 girls were recorded with the name Pyper between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 275 in 2014; its best national rank was #971 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,740 in 2020 to #2,884 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,090 in 2015 to #2,884 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pyper?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 56,200
59 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 27,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,884
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pyper sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 38,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pyper. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pypers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pyper was born before 2014 — so the typical Pyper is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,307
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.3% of all recorded uses (2,027).

Is Pyper rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−281
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,144
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,794
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.5%
Peak was 2014 (275)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#971
2014

Spellings of Pyper

Pyper is not the most common spelling — Piper is, with 65.7% against Pyper's 3.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pyper is used

Across 2016–2025, Pyper was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,030 girls, against 1 in 17,770 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in 100,000).

133 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 3,030
  2. 2Idaho1 in 3,448
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 4,545
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 4,762
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 6,250
  6. 6Iowa1 in 6,667
  7. 7Missouri1 in 8,333
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 10,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Pyper around the world

Where Pyper ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2001–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2022
    #305
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2011
    #514
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pyper by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,884
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,144
Best rank ever
#971
2014
Peak year
2014
275 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,307
Count in 2025
59

Names similar to Pyper

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PepperCooperJasperVesperKooperWhisperPiperKemperJuniperPypperCopperHarperPieperEsperProsperHesperPipperKyperCasperKasperSkipperKuiperRoperHaper

Names with a curve like Pyper

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pyper, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Pyper

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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