Deysi
Feminine · “day's eye”
Deysi is the Spanish-language spelling of Daisy, and the English word is a small piece of poetry: the flower is the day's eye, because it opens at dawn and closes at dusk.
How old is the name Deysi?
Deysi first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Deysi alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,700 people named Deysi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deysi most popular?
Deysi peaked in 2005, reaching #2160 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 1,672 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From daeges eage to Deysi
The story of Deysi
Daeges eage is one of the more charming Old English compounds and Chaucer explains it in the prologue to the Legend of Good Women, so the derivation has been understood in English for six hundred years. Daisy became a Victorian flower name and was also used for Margaret, since marguerite is French for the flower. Deysi is the Spanish-language spelling and is well used in Central America and Mexico.
Meaning
day's eye
From Old English daeges eage, the day's eye, describing how the flower opens with the light and shuts at night; Chaucer refers to the etymology directly, which is unusually early evidence for a word's own explanation.
How the name formed
- daeges eage
- Daisy
- Deysi
Related forms: Daisy · Deisy · Marguerite
Pronouncing Deysi
DAY-see
Two syllables, first stressed. Deysi and Daisy are said identically.
Nicknames for Deysi
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
- 200585 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2160reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −25.5%38 in 2025, from 51
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.
Deysi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Daisy in English — spelling variant
- Deisy in Spanish — spelling variant
- Marguerite in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Tennessee.
Deysis among us
people named Deysi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Deysi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Deysi
- #3832
- Deysi on the 2025 chart
- #887
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Deysi went to 38 girls in 2025, but Deisy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 73, which makes it the 887th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,945 places above the chart.
- Deysi38
- Deisy35
About 1 girl in 22,017 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Deysi 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 Lorissa test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Deysi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Lorissa climbed just as high around 1970, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Lorissa's path sketches the road Deysi is walking now.
Deysi 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
Where Deysi is headed
Deysi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Deysi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Deysi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is a small piece of poetry and easy to explain.
- Six centuries of documented explanation stand behind the word.
- Every letter is sounded, so Spanish speakers read it correctly at once.
- Daisy is the English spelling and will be written for her constantly.
- Deysi, Deisy and Daysi are all in use and none is dominant.
- The flower is a very familiar image, which some find slight.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deysis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Deysi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Deysi?
- Deysi is the most-used spelling in US records — 38 of the 73 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Deisy.
- How popular is the name Deysi in 2025?
- Deysi ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Deysi?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Deysi — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Deysi with classmates?
- Deysi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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