Your thoughts on this names please: [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] [name]Green[/name] possibly using the nn [name]Peggy[/name]. Thanks!
I think [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] flows excellent, and [name]Piper[/name] [name]Green[/name] is very nice! It’s funny you’re nicknaming her [name]Peggy[/name] as her intials are [name]PEG[/name]! 
I don’t love the nickname as I think it sounds very dated, but [name]Piper[/name] is cute!!
Good luck (:
I despise [name]Piper[/name], sorry. I just can’t see it past the age of three, and I find it way too trendy. Plus, I think two nouns in one name ([name]Piper[/name] [name]Green[/name]) is way too much and brings to mind someone dressed in green playing the flute. [name]Evelyn[/name] is nice, though I do prefer just [name]Eve[/name] or [name]Eva[/name]. [name]Phoebe[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name]? [name]Philippa[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name], nicknamed [name]Pippa[/name]/[name]Pippi[/name]? [name]Peggy[/name] is unexpected and kind of cute, actually.
I think [name]Piper[/name] is cute, but I agree - I don’t see it aging well. I’m not a fan of the nn [name]Peggy[/name]. I think [name]Piper[/name] itself sounds nickname-y, so it really doesn’t need one.
As for [name]Evelyn[/name]: It’s nice and it flows nicely with [name]Piper[/name] and balances out it’s trendiness a little bit. 
I dislike [name]Piper[/name]. To me it’s energetic in a bad way, rather than being fun, it feels aggressive and in your face. Plus I don’t see it wearing very well on an adult woman, and that’s coming from me who’s usually arguing about how names like [name]Poppy[/name] and [name]Maisie[/name] would be find an adult. However [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] is a very good combination. I think [name]Harper[/name](which I still don’t love, but can get on board with), [name]Phoebe[/name], and [name]Philippa[/name]/[name]Pippa[/name] are much better alternatives though.
However, please, please, please don’t call your daughter [name]Peggy[/name] or [name]Peg[/name], in fact I’d even stay away from [name]PEG[/name] as initials, it’s that bad. I don’t know the median age of parents around here, so I’ll put this as delicately as I can, but pegging is a certain sexual activity that was previously rather obscure, but is becoming more common knowledge. Obviously a name related to a sexual activity, and a rather unusual one at that, could cause a lot of teasing for a little girl, especially in middle/high school. I expect [name]PEG[/name] will soon be completely off limits as a name, sort of how [name]Dick[/name] is no longer an expectable nickname for [name]Richard[/name]. However, I find [name]Peggy[/name] a lot more embarrassing to be associated with than [name]Dick[/name]. It’s that bad.
Thanks a mixed bunch there then! Not too bothered by the sexual slang it seems now that everything is a sexual pun and it will most likely have changed by the time she is older anyway… We are also considering [name]Phoebe[/name] anyway but much prefer [name]Piper[/name] over anything else (our sons would have been named that if they were girls).
I think we’ll have to agree to differ triceratops!!: I absolutely despise the name [name]Harper[/name] especially on a girl and am not too keen on [name]Phillipa[/name] either. I would never use [name]Maisie[/name] on it’s own and [name]Poppy[/name] sounds far more cutsey and dog-name-like to me than [name]Piper[/name]. [name]May[/name] be it’s a difference of culture or just personal taste!? (am in the UK)
Anyone else?
[name]Dahlia[/name] x
OK, so I had to go to urban dictionary to look up ‘pegging,’ of course. Definitely not a practice one would want associated with their child. :? As to the common knowledge of the term, when you google ‘pegging,’ several of the first hits are in reference to the sexual practice, and there is a Wikipedia entry detailing it. Might want to rethink.
As to [name]Piper[/name], I think there is a cultural difference. Surname-names are sounding dated (to many people) in the US, while I gather they are just crossing over to the UK. [name]Maisy[/name], [name]Poppy[/name], etc, on the other hand, are just crossing over to the US.
I think [name]Piper[/name] is cute and spunky, its a name with alot of personality! And [name]Piper[/name] [name]Green[/name] is really nice.
Also, re: statement about surnames made by phoebesmom, if what your saying were true then the usage would decrease and it hasn’t, new surnames climb up the charts and old ones fall, its like that with any name category. To the poster, I live in the US and [name]Piper[/name] is not dated.
Pegging? I had to look it up, and I seriously doubt that is going to become common practice. I mean who is it that talks about that? I can’t imagine why middle, or even high school, kids would even talk about that. I know kids can be raunchy, but really? Sure it’s not a positive association, but who the heck is even gonna know what that means? Honestly.
And I think [name]Piper[/name] ages just as well as any other name. It’s sweet and spunky. I don’t really like [name]Evelyn[/name] normally, but I think [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] [name]Green[/name] is beautifully balanced. [name]Piper[/name] [name]Green[/name] is a really memorable name without being weird. I really love it, honestly. And most importantly, YOU love it!
pegging is NOT common knowledge and peggy is such a common nn of previous generations that I honestly doubt the sexual aspect would be first association.
I do not understand the concept behind “does not age well” because people grow into their names and the name becomes the person. [name]Piper[/name] 20 years from now will not be disadvantaged when her peers are [name]Poppy[/name] and [name]Maisie[/name] and [name]Sienna[/name]…
[name]Piper[/name] works perfectly in the sibset and if piper is what you love, here’s hoping you get a lill girl to use it on
Well the term was only coined in 2001 on [name]Dan[/name] Savage’s column Savage [name]Love[/name] (which is a great “relationship advice” column if you’re not the squeamish type), and now 10 years later there are millions of references about it on the internet. In fact, I just googled it, and almost all the results were about it, and it has it’s own page on Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Dramatica. So while I doubt that many people actually engage in it, it’s hardly obscure, and it’s rife with teasing potential. And if there’s been that much increase in awareness in 10 years, from literally no awareness since it didn’t have a name to having an encyclopedia page, imagine how much it’ll be in 15 when [name]Peggy[/name] starts high school.
And frankly, kids are kind of awful, especially boys. I remember boys as early as middle school making jokes about sex that would make their mothers blush and be astonished they knew about, but they do. Kids are never as innocent as we’d like to believe. And that was over a decade ago before we had the unlimited internet access kids have today. I see people pass over names due to teasing potential all the time, and if [name]Harry[/name] is an iffy choice because your son might be teased about being hairy, [name]Peggy[/name] is about a million times worse. Also, [name]Dick[/name] was a previously common nickname used by tons of men, but then it became slang for genitals and the name is off limits. I just really feel like this should be a retired nickname.
OK!! Be nice ladies! I feel I should point out here that hardly anyone on here (nearly all young adults - a large percentage of whom got pregnant somehow…) actually knew the meaning of pegging - they had to look it up (as did I)… Also I’m not suggesting naming her Pegging!!! If you google [name]Peggy[/name] you get lots of pages where it is mentioned as someone’s name and if you google [name]PEG[/name] then you get pages for companies who initials are also [name]PEG[/name] and information about [name]PEG[/name] feeding tubes or actual pegs!! Maybe I should point out that we don’t have a taboo about talking about sex with our kids - when they ask we tell them - our 2yr old already knows where babies come from (that came up when i was pregnant…) and the differences between boy and girl parts so to her it’s not a big deal.
On the [name]Dick[/name] issue, I have a friend named [name]Richard[/name] Small who doesn’t wait for people to make the association and just goes for it introducing himself as [name]Dick[/name] Small…
Thankyou for your opinions though! I don’t want you to be put off being honest at all. [name]General[/name] consensus is that most of you like the combo of [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name]; [name]Piper[/name] [name]Green[/name] sounds ok and that it fits with her siblings [name]Kaia[/name] [name]Felicity[/name], [name]William[/name] [name]Arden[/name] ([name]Will[/name]) and [name]Oliver[/name] [name]Kendell[/name] ([name]Ollie[/name])?
Thanks, [name]Dahlia[/name] x
[name]Dahlia[/name], it goes great with her siblings, particularly [name]Kaia[/name] [name]Felicity[/name]!
Thanks [name]Lyndsay[/name]!
I also agree that [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] sounds great with your other kids!
I love [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] as a combo and I’m not usually a fan of names which aren’t classics! [name]Dahlia[/name], well said! I seriously doubt any kid is going to get pegging from piper… even if she does go as peggy. I mean it’s a very well known nickname. I’ll add that I had no idea what it meant and had to look it up too, so i think you’d be fine in that respect. [name]How[/name] are your boys doing?
[name]Elinor[/name]
[name]Elinor[/name] and phoebesmum: thanks for your comments! None of the comments so far have put us off the combo so I suppose that’s a good thing! [name]Dahlia[/name] x
i like the name piper. I know a wonderful, not to mention stunningly beautiful, young lady named piper and it fits her perfectly. I also know a few dogs, actual dogs, named piper and i prefer it as a human name. piper evelyn is really pretty.
I know a 5 year-old [name]Piper[/name] and a 25 year-old [name]Piper[/name]. Plus, [name]Piper[/name] Perabo. I think it ages just fine - but it will give an adult a spunky, youthful edge, I think. Not a bad thing
[name]Hi[/name] there [name]Dolly[/name],
[name]Piper[/name] is not getting a not of nameberry love, huh? I actually really like and it’s on my short list for our baby girl due in [name]August[/name]. It’s actually not winning right now, but if we go with our frontrunner [name]Piper[/name] is edging up to be a third daughter’s name if we ever have one because I feel like the name we are leaning towards ([name]Scarlett[/name]) rules out a few of our other short list contenders ([name]Georgia[/name] and [name]Ruby[/name]). I am finding I can’t commit to [name]Piper[/name] bc a) DH doesn’t like it, but b) I’m not really fighting for it bc I’m sort of unimaginative about names and sometimes it’s hard for me to get past the everyday meaning of these noun names. So I do see someone playing the flute and pied piper a bit (not much though).
Anyhow, I think [name]Piper[/name] sound pippy and sweet without having the -ee sound ending, which is quite popular these days with all the vintage nicknames runnign around like [name]Sadie[/name], [name]Ruby[/name], [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Molly[/name], etc.
I disagree that it won’t age well on a girl. The only [name]Piper[/name] I actually know of is [name]Piper[/name] Perabo and while I had never heard the name before her, I didn’t think she sound absurd as the name as a twenty something year old. I do think about some of these other names (even [name]Sadie[/name] my own daughter) and her ilk like [name]Lucy[/name], [name]Molly[/name],etc will grow on girls. Obviously, not that concerned becuase my first daughter is named [name]Sadie[/name]. Anyhow, if [name]Poppy[/name], [name]Maisie[/name], even [name]Pippa[/name] (for [name]Phillipa[/name]) is okay, then [name]Piper[/name] is more than okay.
The only thing is that I don’t like the nn [name]Peggy[/name]. I am aware of the sexual practice which is pegging, but [name]Peggy[/name] is just not my style and I never got it’s a appeal as a nickname. [name]Piper[/name] just seems like one of those names (unless [name]Penelope[/name]) that doesn’t need a nickname. I also don’t think it’s a good idea to give initials that spell a word. Kids are so dumb, I could see them calling her peg leg, etc. Stupid stuff to you and me but it can affect some kids when they are little.
In general, I like the name [name]Piper[/name] [name]Evelyn[/name] [name]Green[/name] just fine. I personally really like [name]Piper[/name] so not sure why you want to make it obscure by calling her something else entirely, which in my humble opinion, does hold a candle to her real name.