Poppy

What Poppy means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Poppy yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #7 vs #292 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Poppy?

US: Rising: up from #1026 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #10 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 1,077 girls got the name (#289 that year). First in the US records in 1919.

How common

• About 1 in 1,525 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 142 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 164 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (6.05 per 1,000 girls), VT (5.13 per 1,000 girls), ME (3.21 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Poppy is #292 in the US and #7 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Poppy were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Pippa107 US · 348 E&W
• Poppi38 US · 4 E&W
• Popi0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Poppy

Girls

• Violet#13From the word “violet”^*
• Olive#197Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #47 vs #197 in 2025
• Willow#44From the word “willow”^*
• Mercy#862Editor’s note Up from #1,011 in 2015 to #862 in 2025 in the US
• Scarlet#509Editor’s note Down from #376 in 2015 to #509 in 2025 in the US
• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*

For a brother

• Deacon#561Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1971, with 15 babies
• Rowan#59“little red one”^*
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• August#81“month of August”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Poppy’s. Rank is US 2025.