Flute player or piper
Pieper is a variant spelling of the English occupational name Piper. It originally referred to someone who played the pipe or flute, often as a traveling musician or town performer. While the 'i' spelling is the standard English form, the 'ie' variant is occasionally seen as a surname-turned-first-name.
Less common today
Pieper isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #6,968 in 2013.
US births per 5-year period, 1990βpresent (SSA data).
Television personality and model