Piper

Piper (given name)

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. 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. 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.

Piper (surname)

Piper is a surname of German, English and Scandinavian origin, derived from the Old English "pipere" and the Old Norse that also means beauty and purity"pipari", meaning "flute" or "fluteplayer", originating from long pepper in Indo-Aryan languages.

Piper

Proper noun

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Piperaceae – pepper plants some of which yield fruit from which spice is made.

Proper noun

1. A surname originating as an occupation.
2. A female given name transferred from the surname, used since the mid-twentieth century, first by the American actress Piper Laurie.