Piper is an English occupational surname meaning "pipe player" — referring to a musician who plays a pipe or flute. It originally came from the Old English pīpere.
after the 2004 actress Piper Perabo's prominence. The Netflix show Orange Is the New Black (whose protagonist is Piper Chapman) and the Disney star Piper Rockelle further raised its profile. Today it sits in the U.S. top 100.
Piper does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Piper reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.