Meaning not yet researched.
Poppy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,054 in 2025. Its best rank was #289 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #289 in 2023; #292 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Poppy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#292 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #289.
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Poppy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,054 girls in 2025. Peak: #289 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 1,077 (2023).
In 2025, 1,054 US girls were named Poppy, making it the 292nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 45 places from #337 in 2024. That is 119 more than the 935 girls named Poppy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #289, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,077. For comparison, it was #1,027 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Poppy in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 7 babies. In all, 9,546 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,493 babies named Poppy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,457 US girls were named Poppy; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 1,077. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,525 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Poppy ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #56 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Poppi and Poppie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Poppi (248), Poppie (121).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Poppy in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 10 | #56 | — |
| Vermont | 5 | #101 | — |
| Maine | 10 | #110 | — |
| Utah | 34 | #133 | #419 |
| Colorado | 36 | #164 | — |
| Washington | 41 | #183 | #915 |
| Nebraska | 12 | #196 | — |
| Minnesota | 28 | #199 | #979 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #216 | — |
| Massachusetts | 25 | #233 | — |
| Oregon | 16 | #239 | #779 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #243 | — |
| Montana | 5 | #244 | — |
| Virginia | 33 | #253 | #1,359 |
| California | 131 | #255 | #786 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #263 | — |
| Kentucky | 17 | #272 | — |
| North Carolina | 40 | #279 | #1,544 |
| Illinois | 38 | #286 | #1,039 |
| Ohio | 39 | #287 | #1,642 |
| Arkansas | 11 | #292 | — |
| Michigan | 30 | #302 | #1,445 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #327 | #858 |
| Indiana | 22 | #327 | #1,052 |
| Arizona | 22 | #328 | — |
| Tennessee | 25 | #330 | #824 |
| Oklahoma | 13 | #332 | #736 |
| Georgia | 33 | #335 | #1,707 |
| New York | 50 | #340 | #1,055 |
| Idaho | 7 | #343 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #355 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #369 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #377 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #399 | #1,366 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #415 | — |
| Louisiana | 11 | #419 | — |
| Florida | 45 | #422 | #1,793 |
| Alabama | 12 | #427 | — |
| Texas | 79 | #428 | #1,087 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #479 | — |
| Nevada | 6 | #494 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #592 | #560 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #612 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,054 | #292 | — | — |
| 2024 | 935 | #337 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,077 | #289 | 5 | #13,667 |
| 2022 | 956 | #338 | — | — |
| 2021 | 790 | #401 | — | — |
| 2020 | 676 | #457 | — | — |
| 2019 | 636 | #493 | — | — |
| 2018 | 521 | #586 | — | — |
| 2017 | 430 | #681 | — | — |
| 2016 | 382 | #747 | — | — |
| 2015 | 260 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 2014 | 246 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 2013 | 180 | #1,305 | — | — |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,356 | — | — |
| 2011 | 131 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2009 | 92 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2006 | 70 | #2,596 | — | — |
| 2005 | 57 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,176 | — | — |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,124 | — | — |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,060 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,798 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,558 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,981 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,136 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,662 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,003 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,806 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,227 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 1976 | 37 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1973 | 65 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,691 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,926 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,188 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,958 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,695 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,586 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,257 | — | — |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,360 | — | — |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,704 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,797 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,802 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,735 | — | — |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,299 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,561 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,414 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #5,090 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,520 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,781 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,104 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,450 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,824 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,850 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,727 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,549 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,169 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).