The name Poppy is taken from the name of the flower, which derived from Old English popæg. The flower has been used as a symbol for sleep, peace, and death.
Poppy is a first name for girls.
The name Poppy 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, Poppy ranks 579. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Poppy. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Poppy.
The name Poppy is taken from the name of the flower, which derived from Old English popæg. The flower has been used as a symbol for sleep, peace, and death.
Poppy is a youthful... sounding name, that was very popular in England and Wales in the 1990s and has risen in popularity in the US since about 2009.
Poppy is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Poppy cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #306 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Poppy, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Poppy seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Poppy was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With five letters, the name Poppy 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.
That means that since 1.6% of all girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Poppy 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 Poppy, you can simply say:
Pig
Orange
Pig
Pig
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Poppy
Poppy
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
O
P
P
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.
P
O
P
P
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. Poppy sounds like this:
