Girl name#1,554 of girl names
Poppy
Pronounced P AA1 P IY0 (ARPABET)
- 2 syllables
- Peaked 2023
- 106 years in use
How popular is Poppy?
Poppy is a girls' name, and first appears in 1919. It has been given to 8,482 children — the 1,554th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about six times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2023, when 1,076 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 2 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- P AA1 P IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 10
- Syllables:
- 2
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Poppy
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Poppy
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Poppy?
- Poppy ranks 1,554th among girls' names in US records, with 8,482 births since 1919. Over the past decade it accounts for 6,654.
- Is Poppy a unisex name?
- No. Poppy is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Poppy most popular?
- 2023, when 1,076 children were given the name. It has been in use for 106 years and is still recorded as of 2024.