Poet
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- POH-it
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #5,237 for girls
Poet is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “poet, maker”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies) and 5,237th for girls in the US (24 babies).
What does Poet mean?
English: English word, from Greek poietes 'maker'
“poet, maker”
From the English word for a writer of verse, which goes back to Greek poiein 'to make'.
Is Poet a girl's or a boy's name?
Poet is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK and 24 girls and 21 boys in the US.
How popular is Poet in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,990among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Poet, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 5 girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Poet in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
How popular is Poet in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,237among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 24about 1 in 67,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 88% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 24 girls in the US were named Poet, making it the 5,237th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. It first appears in the records in 2005. 21 boys were also named Poet in 2025 (4,706th for boys).
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Poet of any year since it first appeared, in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Poet in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 53% of the babies named Poet in the US were girls.
Poet in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,237 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,675 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,744 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,541 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,446 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
Names like Poet
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Poet: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/poet, updated 20 October 2026.