Meaning and history
From the English word for the white flower, ultimately from Old English dægeseage meaning “day eye,” Daisy first came into use as a given name in the 19th century, along with many other plant and flower names. It was fairly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, appeared as Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), and was later used for Daisy Duck, created by Walt Disney in 1940 as Donald Duck’s girlfriend. The name reached a low point in popularity in the United States in the 1970s before receiving a small boost from a character on The Dukes of Hazzard in 1979.
20062006: 2,300 births, rank #149
2007: 2,159 births, rank #167
2008: 2,075 births, rank #161
2009: 2,074 births, rank #153
2010: 2,020 births, rank #151
20112011: 1,896 births, rank #167
2012: 1,784 births, rank #174
2013: 1,633 births, rank #198
2014: 1,791 births, rank #180
2015: 1,772 births, rank #183
20162016: 1,732 births, rank #189
2017: 1,796 births, rank #170
2018: 1,718 births, rank #169
2019: 1,742 births, rank #164
2020: 1,896 births, rank #143
20212021: 2,087 births, rank #134
2022: 2,325 births, rank #124
2023: 2,426 births, rank #110
2024: 3,102 births, rank #76
20252025: 3,206 births, rank #75
Daisy has risen sharply in the modern US rankings, moving from #141 in 2000 to #75 in 2025. It now stands at #75 for girls. That year also produced its highest recorded birth count, at 3,206.