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It's ridiculous, really. It just sounds like the name of some chattering, jug-eared, freckle-faced, bucktoothed kid in pigtails and overalls running around in a fantasy world, not like a real person.

I like Piper. I think it is Bohemian without being too nature-y, like Skye, Wren, or any one of the flower names that is gaining popularity. It is an occupation based name but I certainly recognize it more as a proper name than a noun.

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For combos I would avoid the above mentioned nature names because they would play up the hippy vibe. I would suggest something classic, with a few syllables and, no "r" to compete with. Maybe Elizabeth or Louise.

Ugly and kind of sinister (the Pied Piper). It's Pippi with a surnamey spin on it.
Makes me think of smoking and plumbing ... and TBH, I get an anatomical metaphor from it, like windpipe (trachea) which feels icky to me.

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All those things would very likely fade into unconsciousness, if I met a person named Piper in real life. I haven't. But I still would not really like the name.

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I like the basic sound idea - the stressed long I, the -er ending, it's hip, it's sayable. But the double P wrecks it for me. I don't like the sound. I'd rather the sound of Spider - although of course that would be an unfortunate name, if the word didn't mean spider, it would be a more pleasant sound than Piper.

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I'd pair it with something lilty. Piper Laurie sounded so good... if you always say the full name, anyway.
Piper Livia
Piper Emilia

I have just seen it in a bookserie before. But it is one of my favorite bookseries, and Piper is a sweet, kind and tought girl, and she is a daughter of Afrodite (demigod). My first thoughts of the name goes to her, but that is just positive.

I like it. It's not ugly. The only issue is that it's a word for someone who plays a pipe.

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Piper Zoe
Piper Orinda
Piper Lysette
Piper Annalise
Piper Ethelyn
Piper Maxine
Piper Lillie
Piper Jeane
Piper Eden
Piper Maryann
Piper Valerie
Piper Kathleen
Piper Alanis
Piper Candice
Piper Mallory
Piper Alexandra
Piper Julianne

It's ok. I don't like it. But yeah whatever

I LOVE it!

I like it, it's a nice name

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Piper Louise
Piper Alice
Piper Elizabeth
Piper Sarah