Poppy
#292 for girls in 2025, 1,054 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 1,077 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,541since 1919
Poppy over time
Rank among girls' names. Poppy has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #292 | 1,054 | — | |
| 2024 | #336 | 935 | — | |
| 2023 | #289 | 1,077 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #338 | 956 | — | |
| 2021 | #400 | 790 | — | |
| 2020 | #457 | 676 | — | |
| 2019 | #492 | 636 | — | |
| 2018 | #586 | 521 | — | |
| 2017 | #681 | 430 | — | |
| 2016 | #746 | 382 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,026 | 260 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,056 | 246 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,301 | 180 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,351 | 173 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,639 | 131 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 | — | |
| 2009 | #2,165 | 92 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,579 | 70 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,865 | 57 | — | |
| 2004 | #5,062 | 25 | — | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | — | |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | — | |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | — | |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | — | |
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| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,069 | 17 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,255 | 37 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,097 | 41 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,688 | 54 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,458 | 65 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,674 | 53 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,874 | 24 | — | |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 | — | |
| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,489 | 10 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
| 1966 | — | — | ||
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | #5,309 | 7 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
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| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 | — | |
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | — | |
| 1956 | #4,467 | 8 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,069 | 9 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,908 | 6 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
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| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | — | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
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| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
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| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 | — | |
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| 1928 | #3,743 | 7 | — | |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Poppy! It came in at #3,817, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1920–1924, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Poppy is popular in 2011
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#506 · 1 in 2,120
- Wisconsin#845 · 1 in 4,687
- Washington#936 · 1 in 5,035
- Arizona#1,090 · 1 in 6,102
- California#1,226 · 1 in 8,651
Best ever in a state: #50 in Alaska, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #506 | 7 | 1 in 2,120 |
| Wisconsin | #845 | 5 | 1 in 4,687 |
| Washington | #936 | 6 | 1 in 5,035 |
| Arizona | #1,090 | 5 | 1 in 6,102 |
| California | #1,226 | 24 | 1 in 8,651 |
| Illinois | #1,283 | 7 | 1 in 8,494 |
| New York | #1,464 | 9 | 1 in 10,308 |
| Texas | #2,059 | 9 | 1 in 17,321 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Poppy
- 44 spots since 2024 (#336 → #292)
- 165 spots since 2020 (#457 → #292)
- 734 spots since 2015 (#1,026 → #292)
- Biggest jump: 280 spots in 2016 (#1,026 → #746)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2024 (#289 → #336)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2023 at #289 (1,077 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,490 girls born in 2023 were named Poppy (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,525 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
- 57.5% of all girls named Poppy (5,488) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,817 (1919) | #3,817 |
| 1920s | 36 | #3,564 (1926) | #4,428 |
| 1930s | 13 | #3,497 (1931) | #3,599 |
| 1940s | 17 | #4,124 (1942) | #4,292 |
| 1950s | 57 | #4,011 (1951) | #4,752 |
| 1960s | 52 | #4,489 (1968) | #5,476 |
| 1970s | 334 | #1,458 (1973) | #2,945 |
| 1980s | 34 | #5,571 (1981) | #7,563 |
| 1990s | 11 | #12,688 (1999) | #13,065 |
| 2000s | 412 | #2,165 (2009) | #6,218 |
| 2010s | 3,080 | #492 (2019) | #1,060 |
| 2020s | 5,488 | #289 (2023) | #352 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Poppy in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 13,428 of them was named Poppy, which outranked 91.6% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,633Melisa132
- #1,633Monique132
- #1,633Vianney132
- #1,639Poppy131
- #1,639Aminah131
- #1,639Analeigh131
- #1,639Issabella131
- #1,646Betsy130
- #1,646Jenelle130
- #1,646Keegan130
Tied with 6 names at #1,639; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.