Daisy
Daisy is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 75th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 75th. About 101,000 Daisys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 23.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Daisy boys named Daisy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 159,355
- Estimated living today
- 101,000
- Median age today
- 23
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 75th
- Rank in 2025
- 75th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 158,723 / 632
How old the living Daisys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 159,355 babies given the name since 1880, about 101,000 are alive — 63 in every hundred. Roughly 37,000 of them are children and 11,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2002 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin English
From the flower daisy, one of the flower names dating from the 19th century. Also a nickname for Margaret, since Marguerite and Margarita are identical with the French and Spanish word for "daisy".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Daisys
- Daisy Ridley (born 1992)English actress
- Daisy Edgar-Jones (born 1998)British actress
- Daisy Shah (born 1984)Indian film actress
- Daisy Marie (born 1984)American pornographic actress, model & feature dancer
- Daisy, Princess of Pless (1873–1943)British socialite born in Wales
- Daisy Fuentes (born 1966)Cuban-American actress, comedian, model, television host, and former weather presenter
- Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (1861–1938)British countess
- Daisy Ducati (born 1989)American pornographic actress
People named Daisy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Daisy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Daisy is most concentrated in South Carolina (2.5×), California (2.1×), Mississippi (2.0×), Nevada (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Daisy peaked:
Daisy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Daisy | 50,856 | 15th |
| France girls | Daisy | 4,875 | 268th |
| Scotland girls | Daisy | 2,714 | 25th |
| Ireland girls | Daisy | 1,579 | 42nd |
| Italy girls | Daisy | 1,166 | — |
| Northern Ireland girls | Daisy | 780 | 33rd |
| New Zealand girls | Daisy | 575 | 26th |
| Belgium girls | Daisy | 216 | 249th |
| Switzerland girls | Daisy | 86 | 736th |
| Poland girls | Daisy | 46 birth registrations | 478th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Daisy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Daisy | 38 | 0.003% | 730th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Daisy | 25 | 0.006% | 359th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Daisy | 23 | 0.035% | 73rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Daisy: rank by region
In 2015, Daisy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Daisy | 836 | 5 |
In 2019, Daisy was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Daisy | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Daisy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Daisy | 5,133 | 5,889 |
| Finland girls | Daisy | 107 | 163 |
| the Netherlands boys | Daisy | — | 49 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Daisy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 539 women called Daisy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Daisy | 54 | 0.097 | 961 |
| Palmas, Las | Daisy | 45 | 0.076 | 1,238 |
| Lugo | Daisy | 6 | 0.036 | 1,304 |
| Málaga | Daisy | 32 | 0.035 | 1,473 |
| Madrid | Daisy | 101 | 0.027 | 1,745 |
| Balears, Illes | Daisy | 17 | 0.027 | 1,987 |
Listed in 22 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 30 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Daisy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.