Piper (given name)

Piper

Girl with a Recorder after Jan Miense Molenaer, c. 1650.
Pronunciation	PYE-pur
Gender	Primarily feminine
Origin
Word/name	English
Meaning	“piper”

American actress Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; 1932–2023), pictured in 1954.

Piper is an English given name meaning "piper". It is a transferred use of the surname, which originated as an occupational name in England in the Middle Ages for a pipe player. ^[1] The given name increased in use for girls in the mid-20th century in the Anglosphere due to the American actress Piper Laurie, who was born Rosetta Jacobs and adopted her stage name in 1949. ^{[2] [3]} The name first appeared on popularity charts in English-speaking countries in the late 1990s and early 2000s after the character Piper Halliwell played by actress Holly Marie Combs appeared on the popular American television series Charmed , which aired from 1998 to 2006. ^[4]

Women

• Piper Campbell (born 1965), American diplomat
• Piper Curda (born 1997), American actress and singer
• Piper Dellums, American author and public speaker
• Piper Gilles (born 1992), American-Canadian ice dancer
• Piper Harris (born 2000), American child actress
• Piper Kerman (born 1969), American memoirist and convicted money launderer and drug trafficker, author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
• Piper Madison (born 2002), American singer
• Piper O'Neill (born 1983), American beauty queen, model, presenter and charity worker
• Piper Palin (born 2001), daughter of American politician Sarah Palin
• Piper Perabo (born 1976), American actress
• Piper Reese (born 2000), American child reporter and actress

Stage name

• Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs; 1932–2023), American actress
• Piper Niven (born Kimberly Benson in 1991), Scottish professional wrestler

Men

Nickname

• Lorenzo “Piper” Davis (1917–1997), American Negro league baseball player

Fiction

Comics

• Piper (Morlock), in the Marvel Universe
• Piper (Mutate), in the Marvel Universe

Television

• Piper Chapman, lead character in the American comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black
• Piper Halliwell, one of the lead characters on Charmed
• Piper Hart, Henry Hart's little sister in the Nickelodeon series Henry Danger
• Piper Willis, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Piper Willowbrook, an elf in the Nickelodeon series Mysticons
• Mr. Piper, host on the 1960s Canadian television show of the same name
• Piper, an artificial intelligence in Emergence
• Piper, a tactical expert in Storm Hawks
• Piper O'Possum a Nick Jr. mascot.

Other

• Piper, a character in the 2012 American independent feature movie California Solo
• Piper McLean, a daughter of Aphrodite and one of the seven in Rick Riordan's The Heroes of Olympus
• Piper Pinwheeler, a character in the 2005 animated film Robots
• Piper Wheel, a character in Zenless Zone Zero
• Piper, a character in a sidequest in the video game Paper Mario: Color Splash
• Piper Wright, a reporter in the video game Fallout 4
• Piper Willowbrook, a main character of Mysticons
• Piper de la Prim, a playable character in the mobile game Brawl Stars
• Piper, a character from Bendy and the Ink Machine
• The Piper, a character in The Keys to the Kingdom book series

See also

• Pyper

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). Oxford Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press. p. 221. ISBN   0-19-861060-2.
2. Whitmore, Greg (16 October 2023). "Piper Laurie: a life in pictures". www.theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
3. Curiel, Jonathan (8 September 2002). "Putting the right accent on a career / "Coyote Ugly's' Piper Perabo switches genres with "Slap Her . . . She's French'". sfgate.com. SFGate. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
4. Schoenberg, Nara (27 July 2010). "Baby names with some bite". chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 4 June 2022.