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Poppy

#292 in 2025Girls' name

Flower name: poppy

Poppy has been given to 9,546 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #292 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 1,077 recorded.

Babies named Poppy, 2025

1 in 3,150

Poppy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05001K1.5K18801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Poppy: meaning, origin, and history

Flower name: poppy

English

What Poppy means

Poppy is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Poppy is used in English. Its origins include English.

The given-name sense places Poppy among flower names.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,541 girls were recorded with the name Poppy between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 1,077 in 2023; its best national rank was #289 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #457 in 2020 to #292 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,027 in 2015 to #292 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Poppy between 2023 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2023; its best national rank was #13,662 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Poppy?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 3,150
1,054 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 1,520
0.07% of girls
Rank, 2025
#292
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
2,181 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Poppy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1003%
School of 50015%

Put another way: gather 2,181 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Poppy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Poppys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Poppy was born before 2021 — so the typical Poppy is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
57.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,468
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Choose a decade

2020s — 57.5% of all recorded uses (5,488).

Is Poppy rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+45
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+165
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+735
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.05×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.9%
Peak was 2023 (1,077)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#289
2023

Spellings of Poppy

Poppy is not the most common spelling — Polly is, with 70.6% against Poppy's 22.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Poppy is used

Across 2016–2025, Poppy was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 709 girls, against 1 in 1,872 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in 7,692).

13141 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 709
  2. 2Maine1 in 769
  3. 3Idaho1 in 870
  4. 4Oregon1 in 909
  5. 5Colorado1 in 1,010
  6. 6Washington1 in 1,099
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 1,124
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 1,190

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Poppy is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 31% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Poppy around the world

Where Poppy ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #7
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2025
    #35
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2025
    #51
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1990–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • France
    1999–2025
    #4,883
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #233
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #46
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2009–2025
    #45
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Poppy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#292
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 165
Best rank ever
#289
2023
Peak year
2023
1,077 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,541
Count in 2025
1,054

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,662
2023
Peak year
2023
5 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Poppy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PoppiHappyPoppieTzippyKippyTippyCappy

Names with a curve like Poppy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Poppy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AmoraAntonellaCollinsMilaniAlessiaKalaniAitanaPalmerKaylaniReignEsmeLennon

Sibling names for Poppy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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