Piper

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Piper: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Piper: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #42 in 2015, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#42highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1998	#3848
1999	#3900
2000	#969
2001	#657
2002	#458
2003	#475
2004	#492
2005	#393
2006	#428
2007	#519
2008	#722
2009	#638
2010	#719
2011	#545
2012	#414
2013	#492
2014	#280
2015	#230
2016	#190
2017	#166
2018	#166
2019	#168
2020	#169
2021	#168
2022	#191
2023	#207
2024	#205

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1997 to 2024.

In 2025: #100 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #443 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2009–2025
Highest recorded position: #42 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2015 (recorded 2009–2025).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #100 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Piper appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 3,961 births with the name.

Piper across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Piper's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#166 (2017)	#205 (2024)	28 of 28	3,961 (1997–2024)	334 (2017)
New Zealand · Girls	#97 (2001)	#43 (2016)	#100 (2023)	16 of 23	930 (2001–2023)	82 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#258 (2021)	#443 (2025)	16 of 19	138 (2007–2025)	17 (2021)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#100 (2009)	#42 (2015)	#100 (2025)	17 of 17	1,743 (2009–2025)	151 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#327 (2013)	#158 (2020)	#337 (2024)	12 of 12	75 (2013–2024)	12 (2020)
England and Wales · Boys	#4527 (2009)	#4527 (2009)	#4702 (2019)	2 of 11	6 (2009–2019)	3 (2009)

Piper by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Piper in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	9	3 of 10	3
2000s	640	10 of 10	64
2010s	1,962	10 of 10	196
2020sbusiest	1,350	5 of 10	270

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 270 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 85, from 86 to 171.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Piper appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #42 in New South Wales, Australia in 2015.

Piper's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#205	238	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#207	238	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#191	265	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#168	308	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#169	301	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#168	303	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#166	323	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#166	334	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#190	289	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#230	219	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#280	171	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#492	86	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#414	110	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#545	76	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#719	51	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#638	58	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#4527	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#722	49	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#519	71	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#428	96	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#393	100	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#492	68	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#475	69	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#458	68	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#657	39	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#969	22	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	70	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#90	78	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	80	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#73	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	113	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	110	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	103	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#55	117	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#50	118	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	female	#51	128	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	female	#42	151	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	108	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	female	#75	96	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	116	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	female	#75	93	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	female	#76	91	Insufficient	Not yet available
2009	New South Wales, Australia	female	#100	78	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New Zealand	female	#100	39	High	Verified
2022	New Zealand	female	#71	60	High	Verified
2021	New Zealand	female	#72	59	High	Verified
2020	New Zealand	female	#67	55	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#48	81	High	Verified
2018	New Zealand	female	#67	56	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#52	74	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	female	#43	82	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	female	#52	76	High	Verified
2014	New Zealand	female	#68	52	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	female	#65	59	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	female	#77	58	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	female	#93	45	High	Verified
2009	New Zealand	female	#89	46	High	Verified
2003	New Zealand	female	#97	42	High	Verified
2001	New Zealand	female	#97	46	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#337	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#264	6	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#158	12	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#200	9	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#239	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#211	9	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#312	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#439	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#327	5	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#443	8	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#556	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#555	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#357	11	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#258	17	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#284	16	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#387	11	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#341	12	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#335	13	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#462	9	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#752	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#157	27	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #42, first reached in 2015.

It held a top-100 place in 19 years, 17 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 334 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 27 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Piotr · #50, 71y
Pip · #1407, 24y
Piper-Rose · #2300, 13y
Pippa · #44, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Mikayla · #42, 31y
Aaliyah · #41, 30y
Ashton · #41, 33y
Micah · #43, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Faith · #42, 30y
Mikayla · #42, 31y
Aaliyah · #41, 30y
Caelan · #43, 30y

Piper was ranked #42 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 2015. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Piper and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Piper without appearing here.

Piper moved ahead of

Blake Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3900 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #519 and #5201.
Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #475 and #4373.
Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #458 and #4137.
George Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #458 and #4137.

Moved ahead of Piper

Riley Compare
In 2023 they stood at #264 and #328 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2024 that had become #337 and #192.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #545 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #414 and #284.
Éala Compare
In 2018 they stood at #387 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #284 and #180.
Ada Compare
In 2015 they stood at #312 and #358 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #211 and #137.

Moved the opposite way to Piper

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Piper

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Piper went from #3824 to #205 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #42 in New South Wales, Australia in 2015. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Piper

Piper at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Piper across 6 official records

Piper by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Piper appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Piper

Piper and the names beside it

Piper moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Piper

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Piper at a glance

Piper across 6 official records

Piper by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Piper appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Piper

Piper and the names beside it

Piper moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Piper

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Moved the same way as Piper