Piper

At the 2020 census, 21,405 Americans bore the surname Piper — 1,628th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,000.

By the numbers

People: 21,405
Rank: 1,628th
How common: 1 in 14,000
Per 100,000: 7.2

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Piper described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 83.4%
Black, not Hispanic 8.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Piper

Billie Piper (born 1982)British actress and singer
Roddy Piper (1954–2015)Canadian professional wrestler
Arón Piper (born 1997)Spanish-Germanian actor and singer
John Piper (born 1946)American theologian and writer
Donald Piper (1911–1963)basketball player
Katie Piper (born 1983)British philanthropist, presenter, writer and model
David Piper (born 1930)racecar driver
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964)American science fiction writer

People named Piper with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Piper

Also a first name

Piper has been given to 62,934 American babies as a first name since 1951, peaking in 2015. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.