metonymic occupational name for a piper,
from Middle English pipe ‘pipe’ (Old English
pipe). In some cases it may have been a topographic name
from the same word in the sense ‘waterpipe’, ‘conduit’, ‘water
channel’, or a habitational name from Pipe in Herefordshire or
Pipehill in Staffordshire, near Lichfield (earlier Pipa), both
named from this word.occasionally from a personal name,
Pipe, which is recorded in Domesday Book.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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