Poppy
So rare in Poland that most people have never met one: only a few dozen women carry it, and no girls have been given it in recent years. English by use, Latin at root, from the word for the poppy flower.
Poppy Pronunciation
What Poppy means
Where Poppy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Poppy names a flower. The English word descends from Old English popig, borrowed in turn from Latin papaver, the poppy of Roman fields and Roman medicine. Its root is Latin. Its use as a given name is English, warm and plain, nearer to a fond nickname than to a saint's name.
In England, Poppy stayed a flower word for centuries before anyone gave it to a daughter. The bloom picked up a meaning that later reached the name: remembrance, after the red poppies of the First World War battlefields. That sense came to the flower first and to the name second.
Poppy has no diminutives and no variants of its own. On a Polish class register it would sit among names with long church histories, a short English import beside them. The meaning stays simple. In Polish, poppy is mak.
How many people are named Poppy
1 in 663054 women in Poland is named Poppy. 34 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6887 among female names.
Poppy's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Poppy as a middle name
Poppy is a first name for 34 women in Poland and a middle name for another 19, a 64/36 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1683rd, between Mirjam (19) and Riwana (19).
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#1681 Minna19
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#1682 Mirjam19
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#1683 Poppy19
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#1684 Riwana19
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#1685 Ruvimbo19