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How popular is the name Poppy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Poppies are alive today.
Poppy is one of the ten most popular girls' names in England and Wales, ranked 8th in 2024 with 1,888 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2013, when 3,422 babies were given the name, the 7th most popular that year. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 52,000 babies have been named Poppy in England and Wales since 1996. Poppy is one spelling of a name also recorded as Poppie; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Poppy you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Poppies born in England and Wales are between 9 and 19, and there are at least 57,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 17% chance that at least one of them will be called Poppy.
How many babies are named Poppy each year?
Includes all spellings: Poppy, Poppie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Poppy spelling rank?
Where does the Poppie spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Poppy most popular?
Poppy peaked in 2013, when 3,530 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Poppy?
At least 57,000 people named Poppy in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Poppy?
Most living Poppies are between 9 and 19; the most common age is about 13.
Is Poppy becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.