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Pyper

Pyper is a girl's name that peaked in 2014, when it was the 970th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,859th. About 3,300 Pypers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Pyper

By the numbers

Total US births
3,307
Estimated living today
3,300
Median age today
11
Peak year
2014
Best rank
970th
Rank in 2025
2,859th
First recorded
1978

How old the living Pypers are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,307 babies given the name since 1978, about 3,300 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,800 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin a surname

A variant of Piper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Pyper is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Pyper is most concentrated in Utah (11.8×), Idaho (7.9×), Oklahoma (3.4×), Arkansas (2.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular girls’ names the year Pyper peaked:

All the names of 2014

Pyper elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Pyper 154 1,796th
Scotland girls Pyper 81 369th
Northern Ireland girls Pyper 21 218th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.