Poppy Girl
How popular is Poppy?
#292 girl name in 2025
1,054 baby girls were named Poppy in the US in 2025, making it the 292nd most popular girl name.
Poppy popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #292 for girls (▲ 44 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,054 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+305% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,026 in 2015, #457 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2023 (1,077 girls) |
| Highest rank | #289 in 2023 |
| First recorded | 1919 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Poppy counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Poppy family of names ranked #296 for girls in 2025 (#327 the year before), with 1,110 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Poppy | 1,054 | 95% |
| Poppi | 38 | 3% |
| Poppie | 18 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Poppy is most popular
Babies named Poppy per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Poppy by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,815 |
| 1920s | 36 | #3,563 |
| 1930s | 13 | #3,495 |
| 1940s | 17 | #4,122 |
| 1950s | 57 | #4,010 |
| 1960s | 52 | #4,488 |
| 1970s | 334 | #1,458 |
| 1980s | 34 | #5,570 |
| 1990s | 11 | #12,681 |
| 2000s | 412 | #2,165 |
| 2010s | 3,080 | #492 |
| 2020s | 5,488 | #289 |
Girl names about as popular as Poppy
Questions
- Is Poppy a boy or girl name?
- Poppy is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Poppy were girls.
- How popular is the name Poppy?
- 1,054 baby girls were named Poppy in the US in 2025, making it the 292nd most popular girl name.
- When was Poppy most popular?
- Poppy peaked in 2023, when 1,077 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #289 in 2023.
- How many people are named Poppy?
- 9,546 babies have been named Poppy in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,422 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 5.
- Where is Poppy most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Poppy was most common in Maine, at 2.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.