Poppy-May
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- POP-ee-MAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,409 for girls
Poppy-May is a girls' name of Modern origin, meaning “poppy + May”. In 2025 it ranked 3,409th for girls in the UK (7 babies).
What does Poppy-May mean?
Modern: combination of Poppy and May
“poppy + May”
A modern combination of the flower name Poppy with May, the month or a pet form of Mary.
Is Poppy-May a girl's or a boy's name?
Poppy-May is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Poppy-May in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,409th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 40,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the UK were named Poppy-May, making it the 3,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,708th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 33 girls.
Half of all the girls named Poppy-May in the UK since 1996 were born between 2012 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were given Poppy-May or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,607, up from #3,409 for this spelling alone.
- Poppy-Mae 9
- Poppy-May 7
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,332nd in England and Wales.
Poppy-May in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #3,409 |
| 2024 | 13 | #2,175 |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 15 | #1,957 |
| 2021 | 6 | #3,697 |
| 2020 | 18 | #1,708 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 24 | #1,420 |
| 2017 | 9 | #2,864 |
| 2016 | 15 | #2,015 |
| 2015 | 18 | #1,739 |
| 2014 | 28 | #1,272 |
| 2013 | 33 | #1,142 |
| 2012 | 25 | #1,384 |
| 2011 | 14 | #2,032 |
| 2010 | 8 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 15 | #1,848 |
| 2008 | 9 | #2,663 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
Nicknames for Poppy-May
- Poppy 1,935 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Poppy-May
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Poppy, Sophia, Myla, Phoebe, Ivy, Violet, Matilda, Eliza, Penelope, Evelyn, Miley, Isla
Other spellings of Poppy-May
Names related to Poppy-May
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Poppy-May: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/poppy-may, updated 20 October 2026.