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How popular is “Piper” in the USA?

Number of people named “Piper” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Piper” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Piper” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Piper” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Piper” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Piper” by birth year

This chart shows how “Piper” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1951 11 0.000002986 11 100%
1952 35 0.000009215 35 100%
1953 40 0.00001038 40 100%
1954 36 0.000009044 36 100%
1955 32 0.00000797 32 100%
1956 37 0.000008974 37 100%
1957 40 0.000009519 40 100%
1958 40 0.000009676 40 100%
1959 24 0.000005772 24 100%
1960 25 0.000006019 25 100%
1961 32 0.000007725 32 100%
1962 44 0.000010904 44 100%
1963 48 0.000012127 48 100%
1964 70 0.000018006 70 100%
1965 51 0.000014067 51 100%
1966 65 0.000018702 65 100%
1967 59 0.000017379 59 100%
1968 77 0.000022792 77 100%
1969 60 0.000017265 60 100%
1970 81 0.000022459 81 100%
1971 64 0.000018646 64 100%
1972 68 0.000021635 68 100%
1973 69 0.000022871 69 100%
1974 69 0.000022697 69 100%
1975 68 0.000022521 68 100%
1976 54 0.000017797 54 100%
1977 86 0.000027074 86 100%
1978 90 0.000028357 90 100%
1979 70 0.00002104 70 100%
1980 79 0.000022935 79 100%
1981 70 0.000020235 70 100%
1982 58 0.000016534 58 100%
1983 54 0.000015592 54 100%
1984 54 0.000015478 54 100%
1985 59 0.000016531 59 100%
1986 51 0.000014338 51 100%
1987 57 0.000015809 57 100%
1988 38 0.000010284 38 100%
1989 54 0.000014046 54 100%
1990 63 0.000015939 63 100%
1991 63 0.000016173 63 100%
1992 62 0.00001614 62 100%
1993 73 0.000019362 73 100%
1994 86 0.000023133 86 100%
1995 98 0.00002676 98 100%
1996 145 0.000039757 145 100%
1997 184 0.000050748 179 5 95%
1998 166 0.000045131 159 7 92%
1999 333 0.000090149 324 9 95%
2000 530 0.000140215 522 8 97%
2001 713 0.000190469 705 8 98%
2002 652 0.000174411 643 9 97%
2003 909 0.000239065 902 7 98%
2004 1223 0.00032008 1214 9 99%
2005 1274 0.000331353 1261 13 98%
2006 1395 0.000352612 1385 10 99%
2007 1483 0.000370965 1483 100%
2008 1918 0.000487958 1913 5 99%
2009 2198 0.000575366 2191 7 99%
2010 2155 0.000583104 2142 13 99%
2011 2745 0.000750453 2736 9 99%
2012 3086 0.000843776 3070 16 99%
2013 3198 0.000877206 3191 7 100%
2014 3879 0.001046575 3868 11 99%
2015 4153 0.001122156 4139 14 99%
2016 3967 0.00108131 3955 12 99%
2017 3577 0.001000225 3567 10 99%
2018 3237 0.000920675 3229 8 100%
2019 3188 0.000918485 3188 100%
2020 2905 0.00086961 2900 5 100%
2021 2747 0.000810815 2739 8 99%
2022 2493 0.00073689 2493 100%
2023 2073 0.000626058 2073 100%
2024 1883 0.00056572 1877 6 99%

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