Pepper or Piper?

rowanleaves

Cant decide if I even like these names, but we were thinking about them last night, and wanted to put it out there. What do you think?

liza0828

I think they are great names for dogs.  Babies... not so much.

jkfranklin

Piper's ok.  Pepper, um not so much.

Ruffles&Rust

Piper

Pepper

AmyA210

I like Piper. Pepper is a def no.

liza0828

You can't seriously be considering naming a child Pepper.

SummerBaby12

I think a girl or boy named pepper would get teased too much since its a condiment used for food.

Erina1004

Pepper makes me think of the mean girl from Annie or even worse, a dog.  Piper is cute, but just nms.

alliejo725

I actually really like the name Pepper (it was one of DH's great-grandmothers' names), but I just don't think it's a livable name today. I don't think it can be taken "seriously." But I do think it would make a cute NN, possibly for Penelope or Piper or another P name, or even just for the heck of it (a kid with a spicy personality would be a good Pepper).

I love Piper. I think it's very fun and has a lot of personality. It's pretty, but it's not frilly.

clee2009

I like Piper.

Pepper makes me think of a pet name or I think that is Gwenth Paltrows character on Iron Man....either way I don't like it.

wkfouts

Piper

I'd have to say NO on Pepper.

onislandtime

OMG are you my IRL bff in disguise? Her top 3 girl names are Piper, Pepper and Pippy.

Piper is ok, but Pepper is totally a dog's name.

melissa721

Pepper? No. Piper...ehhhhhhhh...

magsugar13

liza0828:

You can't seriously be considering naming a child Pepper.

this x's 1000

really?

ces25c

I dunno why some of the PPs hate Piper... it's a legit name, if somewhat hippie-ish.

Pepper is perfect for a dog, or a (possibly mocking) pet name for a red head. 

shellybird101

neither.  But i say piper cause pepper is a spice, veggie or that annoying girl on the movie Annie.

IrishBrideND

I hope Pepper becomes a doctor.

fmw0526

Ruffles&Rust:

Piper

Pepper

 

What they said!

forensicmama

IrishBrideND:

I hope Pepper becomes a doctor.

 LMBO

 

Although I don't like either name, Piper is MUCH better than Pepper!

piper09

Piper is my dog's name, so I totally associate it with a dog.  I do know of a few littler girls named Piper, though, and I do think it is a cute name.

Pepper is horrible. 

Along the same lines, what about the name Poppy?

LadyXaverian

AmyA210:

I like Piper. Pepper is a def no.

This exactly.

ames71

Pepper is definitely 4-legged friend territory for me.

I love Piper! 

mlf625

I think Piper is a great name.

lovinfall

IrishBrideND:

I hope Pepper becomes a doctor.

HA!

BetchySprout

Piper is a secret favorite of mine. 

12bailey18

Pepper if you had a dalmation. I do think Piper is a very cute name, although I'm not sure it grows very well.

karakel

Pepper sounds like a 5 year old trying to name their pet.

Piper is NMS

erinms

Love Piper.

Pepper is just too far out there for a given name.  It is darling as a nickname, but it is just not OK for a first name.

Agree with pp suggestion of Poppy, too. 

metzy144

jkfranklin:

Piper's ok.  Pepper, um not so much.

this

cozylittlecave

I love the name Pepper... so much that my dog's name is Pepper. 

Really though, it'd make a fun nn, but not first name. Pepper Pots from Iron Man is probably the best known person, but in the comics, her real name was NOT Pepper- it was a nn. 

FWIW, Philippa/Pippa is similar as well, and like Piper, not as out there. 

waterfly

Piper is fine, though NQMS...

Pepper would be a cute NN, but I'd definitely give the kid a "real" name to go by when she's older.  It also immediately makes me think of Pippin Galadriel Moonchild from Good Omens:

"Pepper's given first names were Pippin Galadriel Moonchild. She had been given them in a naming ceremony in a muddy valley field that contained three sick sheep and a number of leaky polythene teepees. Her mother had chosen the Welsh valley of Pant y Gyrdl as the ideal site to Return to Nature. (Six months later, sick of the rain, the mosquitoes, the men, the tent trampling sheep who ate first the whole commune's marijuana crop and then its antique minibus, and by now beginning to glimpse why almost the entire drive of human history has been an attempt to get as far away from Nature as possible, Pepper's mother returned to Pepper's surprised grandparents in Tadfield, bought a bra, and enrolled in a sociology course with a deep sigh of relief.)

There are only two ways a child can go with a name like Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, and Pepper had chosen the other one: the three male Them had learned this on their first day of school, in the playground, at the age of four.

They had asked her her name, and, all innocent, she had told them.

Subsequently a bucket of water had been needed to separate Pippin Galadriel Moonchild's teeth from Adam's shoe. Wensleydale's first pair of spectacles had been broken, and Brian's sweater needed five stitches. "

rsquaredr

Pepper? Really?

Piper

rowanleaves

Yeah, we actually considered Pepper.....but not anymore.......whew! The input around here is kinda.....caustic? Yeah, but whatever. I get it. I named our miscarriage baby Poppy. I guess I was considering a theme. Now I'm just kinda depressed. I guess its back to the drawing board!

ZTACRYSTAL

clee2009:

I like Piper.

Pepper makes me think of a pet name or I think that is Gwenth Paltrows character on Iron Man....either way I don't like it.

Same here.

marlilou

Like everyone else said, Piper yes, Pepper not so much.  Something to keep in mind though, I work with young children and recently I have come across 3 Pipers.  All little girls, so it might be growing in popularity. (don't know how much that matters to you)

trulil

If you must choose one, Piper. I trust your baby will not be an orphan in Annie.