Poppy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the flower; first attested Geoffrey Popy 1275 RH (Norfolk) (A Dictionary of English Surnames)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/pˈopj/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Poppy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Poppy is also written Πόπη in Greek and ป๊อปป in Thai.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 16K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Poppy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Poppy in other scripts: Greek and Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Popi in GR Greece, CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Poppy
- Indonesian:/pˈopj/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from the flower; first attested Geoffrey Popy 1275 RH (Norfolk)
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Poppy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Poppy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Poppy | 31 |
| US United States | — | 4,380 | 1 in 76K | 4.3K | Poppy | 234 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 1.9K | Poppy | 196 |
| GR Greece | #624 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | 2 | Popi | 57 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 401 | Poppy | 136 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 552as Ποπη | 1 in 2.3K | 552 | Popi | 24 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Poppy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From the word denoting the flower, Oid English popeg (from Latin papaver). It has been used as a given name since the latter years of the 19th century, and reached a peak of popularity in the 19208.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Old English; a flower name
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Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Poppy Montgomeryb. 1972AUAustralian actress (born 1972)
- Poppy Delevingneb. 1986GBBritish model
- Poppy Draytonb. 1991GBBritish actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)56 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Poppy a male or female name?
- Poppy is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), United Kingdom (ONS, 2024), Australia (Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM), 2023) and Canada (Statistics Canada, 2024), among others.
- What does the name Poppy mean, and where does it come from?
- from the flower; first attested Geoffrey Popy 1275 RH (Norfolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- Which countries have the most people named Poppy?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Poppy in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled poppy. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Greece and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Poppy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,380 people named Poppy in 2020, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Poppy compared with other names?
- In Greece, Poppy is the 624th most common given name of 24,546 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Poppy?
- In Indonesian /pˈopj/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What do you want to know about Poppy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/poppyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Poppy” — the 624th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.