Pyper

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Pyper: Recorded every year since 2001, it reached #218 in 2018, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
28times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#218highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#2783
2002	#4137
2003	#3099
2004	#3725
2005	#1796
2006	#4157
2007	#4294
2008	#3860
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#3185
2012	#3285
2013	#2887
2014	#4003
2015	#2705
2016	#2367
2017	#2706
2018	#3178
2019	#2286
2020	#2449
2021	#3192
2022	#5669
2023	#3598

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

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What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2001 to 2023.

In 2022: #305 among girls in Northern Ireland, #5669 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2001–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #2783 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2015–2022
Highest recorded position: #218 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2018 (recorded 2015–2022).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #3598 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Pyper appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 150 births with the name.

Pyper across 2 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.

Pyper'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	#2783 (2001)	#1796 (2005)	#3598 (2023)	23 of 23	150 (2001–2023)	12 (2005)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (2015)	#218 (2018)	#305 (2022)	4 of 8	21 (2015–2022)	8 (2018)

Pyper 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 Pyper in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	46	9 of 10	5
2010sbusiest	78	10 of 10	8
2020s	26	4 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 8 births a year.

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

Pyper 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 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2018.

Pyper'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
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3192	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2449	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3178	7	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2367	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2705	9	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2887	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#4294	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#4157	4	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3099	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#305	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#218	8	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#358	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
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 3 registrars between 2001 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #218, first reached in 2018.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 12 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 23 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Bryn · #219, 29y
Samara · #219, 29y
Becky · #220, 25y
Charis · #220, 29y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Koen · #216, 21y
Ivy-Rose · #215, 16y
Sofija · #221, 23y
Caodhan · #214, 16y

Pyper was ranked #218 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2018. 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.

Pyper 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 Pyper without appearing here.

Pyper moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3178 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4003 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2705 and #5730.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #3285 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #2887 and #5742.
Dianne Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4003 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3192 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Pyper

Amalie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #3998 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #4137 and #938.
Francis Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #2488.
Carter Compare
In 2021 they stood at #2449 and #3117 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #3148.
Tove Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3192 and #3519 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #5669 and #3533.

Moved the opposite way to Pyper

Francis Compare
Between 2005 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #1796 to #3598 while Francis went from #3970 to #1863.
Hayden Compare
Between 2005 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #1796 to #3598 while Hayden went from #3970 to #2346.

Moved the same way as Pyper

Brittany Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #2783 to #5669 and Brittany from #871 to #3533.
Carmel Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #2783 to #5669 and Carmel from #1520 to #3533.
Finley Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #2783 to #5669 and Finley from #1728 to #3533.
Karen Compare
Between 2001 and 2022 in England and Wales · Girls, Pyper went from #2783 to #5669 and Karen from #696 to #4645.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 3 regions, from 2001 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #218 in Northern Ireland in 2018. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pyper

Pyper at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pyper across 2 official records

Pyper by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Pyper across 2 official records

Pyper by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Pyper

Pyper and the names beside it

Pyper moved ahead of

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