Poppy
About 9,546 American babies have been named Poppy since 1919, most of them around 2023. In 2025 it ranked 292nd. About 9,400 Poppys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Poppy boys named Poppy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 9,546
- Estimated living today
- 9,400
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 289th
- Rank in 2025
- 292nd
- First recorded
- 1919
- Girls / boys
- 9,541 / 5
How old the living Poppys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 9,546 babies given the name since 1919, about 9,400 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 8,700 of them are children and 60 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Poppys
- Poppy (born 1995)American singer
- Poppy Montgomery (born 1972)Australian actress
- Poppy Z. Brite (born 1967)novelist, short story writer, food writer from the United States
People named Poppy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Poppy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Poppy is most concentrated in Utah (3.8×), Oregon (2.6×), Washington (2.5×), Colorado (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular girls’ names the year Poppy peaked:
Poppy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Poppy | 54,591 | 7th |
| Scotland girls | Poppy | 2,672 | 26th |
| New Zealand girls | Poppy | 1,374 | 30th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Poppy | 1,002 | 32nd |
| Ireland girls | Poppy | 940 | 90th |
| France girls | Poppy | 135 | 3,295th |
| Belgium girls | Poppy | 21 | 1,182nd |
| Poland girls | Poppy | 4 birth registrations | 729th |
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.
Poppy: rank by region
In 2023, Poppy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Poppy | 882 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Poppy by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 2 | 551st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Poppy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Poppy | 25 | 44 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
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.