Poppy

Where Poppy comes from

The dictionaries list Poppy as a given name — a female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #3,817 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2023
    Peak, #289
    1,077 babies named Poppy — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from English, a flower name used since the end of the 19th century.
Namesakes

No widely known Poppy turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.