Poppy
Poppy was given to 1,054 girls in 2025, #292 among girls’ names; 9,546 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,390 Americans named Poppy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 3 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Poppy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Poppy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Poppy is “a female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Poppy?
#292 among girls’ names, 2025
Poppy rose from #1,027 in 2015 to #292 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.15 to 0.66 per 1,000.
1,082 babies in 2023, the peak
Poppy peaked in 2023, when 1,082 babies were given it (1,077 girls, #289 among girls’ names). The 1,054 births of 2025 are 97% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,054 | #292 | 0.66 |
| 2024 | 935 | #337 | 0.58 |
| 2023 | 1,077 | #289 | 0.67 |
| 2022 | 956 | #338 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 790 | #401 | 0.48 |
| 2020 | 676 | #457 | 0.42 |
| 2019 | 636 | #493 | 0.38 |
| 2018 | 521 | #586 | 0.31 |
| 2017 | 430 | #681 | 0.25 |
| 2016 | 382 | #747 | 0.22 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 260 | #1,027 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 246 | #1,056 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,305 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,356 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,644 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,732 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,179 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,573 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,917 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,596 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,893 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,172 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,117 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,054 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,791 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,550 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,130 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,657 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,001 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,805 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,226 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,018 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,612 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,188 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,284 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,123 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,701 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,473 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,691 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,187 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,957 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,694 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,585 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,359 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,703 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,796 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,559 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,318 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,412 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,088 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,577 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,518 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,057 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,102 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,823 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,725 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,548 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,167 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Poppy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Poppy has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Poppy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Poppy, and how old are they?
9,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 9,546 Americans ever recorded as Poppy. The median Poppy alive today is 5 years old; half are between 3 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 4,380 people named Poppy (4,268 women and girls, 112 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 350 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 29 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 836 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,100 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Poppy born?
The states with the most babies named Poppy are California, Texas and New York, with 25% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 131 | #255 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 79 | #428 | 0.6× |
| New York | 50 | #340 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 45 | #422 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 41 | #183 | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 40 | #279 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 39 | #287 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 38 | #286 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 36 | #164 | 1.4× |
| Utah | 34 | #133 | 1.8× |
Where Poppy is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Poppy is most over-represented in Utah: since 1919 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Poppy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,915 babies since 1880, Poppy is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,054 of their 1,110 babies (95%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Poppy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Poppy and names like it
- Compare Poppy and PoppiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPoppy peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Poppy since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Poppy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Poppy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Poppy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.