The name Daisy has its origins in the name of a flower. In Old English, it was called ‘daegeseage’, meaning ‘the day’s eye’. The name reflects the way the flower opens in the day and closes at night.
Daisy is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Daisy isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Daisy ranks 155. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 12 were named Daisy. In the entire USA, approximately 126,066 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Daisy. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Daisy has its origins in the name of a flower. In Old English, it was called ‘daegeseage’, meaning ‘the day’s eye’. The name reflects the way the flower opens in the day and closes at night.
Did you know... that the Latin name for daisy is 'bellis perennis', which means 'everlasting pretty'.
Daisy is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their daughter Daisy. This means that several girls named Daisy have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Daisy has reached its highest rank of 47 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1883. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Daisy one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Daisy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Daisy will be Daisy. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Daisy in 2022 – in fact 2,313 to be precise, confirming Daisy is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #118 among all girls‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 1972, when only 246 baby girls were named Daisy.
The name Daisy may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Daisy is apparently especially popular in South Carolina. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 458 women in South Carolina is called Daisy. In total, that’s 4,810 women who feel addressed when the name Daisy is shouted loudly across South Carolina and who ensure that their name makes it to #112 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Daisy as the answer a total of 125,907 times. This places Daisy at #278 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Daisy as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter D is quite common as an initial letter for girls' names. To be precise, 5.6% of all girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With five letters, the name Daisy is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 5.6% of all girls' names start with D, this initial letter occurs much more often than all 26 letters on average. And maybe interesting to know: of all the names that begin with a D, Dorothy is the most common.
If your name is Daisy and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Daisy, you can simply say:
Dinosaur
Apple
Igloo
Sun
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Daisy
Daisy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
D
A
I
S
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
D
A
I
S
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Daisy sounds like this:
