Daizy
Feminine · “The day's eye”
Daisy is one of the very few English flower names whose meaning is a small poem: the Old English called it the day's eye, because the flower opens at dawn and closes at dusk. Daizy is that word with a z, which is a decision about looks rather than sound.
How old is the name Daizy?
Daizy first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Daizy alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 800 people named Daizy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Daizy most popular?
Daizy peaked in 2009, reaching #3677 nationally. Today it ranks #5410, 1,733 places below that high. See the whole 2009 chart.
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Where it comes from
From dæges ēage to Daizy
The story of Daizy
The flower name was in English long before it was anyone's name, and it became a girls' name in the nineteenth century with Rose, Violet, Lily and Iris in the great Victorian flower wave. Because the French call the ox-eye daisy marguerite, Daisy also functioned as a familiar form of Margaret, which is why Victorian Daisies are frequently Margarets on paper. Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan fixed the name's associations for American readers in 1925. The z spelling appears in the American records in the 2000s, when the flower names were reviving generally, and peaks in 2009.
Meaning
The day's eye
From Old English dæges ēage, the day's eye, describing the flower's habit of opening in the morning and closing at night. The reading is settled and is one of the most transparent etymologies in the English flower vocabulary. Daisy also served historically as a nickname for Margaret, because the French name for the flower is marguerite. The z of Daizy is an American respelling with no separate history.
How the name formed
- dæges ēage
- daisy
- Daisy
- Daizy
Related forms: Marguerite · Daisy · Margarita
Pronouncing Daizy
DAY-zee
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical to Daisy. The s in the standard spelling is already voiced as a z, which is precisely why the respelling is possible.
Nicknames for Daizy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200943 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3677reached in 2009
- Change vs 2024
- +21.1%23 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Daizy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Marguerite in French — related form
- Daisy in English — spelling variant
- Margarita in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California.
Daizys among us
people named Daizy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 69,881 born in 2025 was named Daizy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Daizy
- #5410
- Daizy on the 2025 chart
- #88
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Daizy went to 23 girls in 2025, but Daisy and Daysi are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 3,262, which makes it the 88th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,322 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 493 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 69,881 for Daizy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cira test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Daizy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cira climbed just as high around 1945, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cira's path sketches the road Daizy is walking now.
Daizy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Daizy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Daizy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and among the most charming in English.
- Everyone can say it on sight.
- Margaret stands behind it historically as a formal option.
- Daisy is the standard spelling and will be written for it.
- The z reads as a deliberate misspelling to anyone who knows the word.
- Daisy Buchanan is a strong and not entirely flattering literary association.
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Frequently asked
- How many Daizys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Daizy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Daizy?
- Daizy is one of 3 recorded spellings. Daisy is the more common one — 3,206 births in 2025 against 23 for Daizy.
- How popular is the name Daizy in 2025?
- Daizy ranks #5410 among US girl names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Daizy?
- About 1 in every 69,881 US girls born in 2025 was named Daizy — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Daizy with classmates?
- Daizy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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