Daisy
Meaning
day's eye flower
The story
Daisy comes directly from the English flower name, whose Old English ancestor dægeseage means day's eye, describing the bloom opening with daylight. It entered regular given-name use in the nineteenth century alongside other flower names. Literature and popular culture kept refreshing the image, from Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby to Daisy Duck, but no one character owns the name. The nametree curve shows an early presence, a long slide toward the floor through the middle and later twentieth century, then a return in the 1990s and 2000s, a stronger rise in the 2010s, and its highest point in the 2020s. That is a real vintage revival rather than a brand-new nature trend. Daisy sounds simple because it is an everyday flower word, while its hidden day's-eye history gives the familiar name an older piece of poetry.
The formal names behind Daisy
Daisy is an established short form of each of these names.
Margaret · Greek origin · pearl
Marguerite · French origin · pearl, daisy flower
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Daisy peaked in the 2020s.
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Popularity in Brazil
6,091 people · the #2,391 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 33,333 · median age 47
Among people named Daisy living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 38 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
When you meet Daisy
Most people given the name Daisy in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Daisy deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Daisy truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Daisy fits with your family’s names and surname.
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