Daisy Forename
2,245th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 453,518 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Saint Martin
Daisy Forename Definition:
A female name. a late-Victorian pet-name for Margaret (marguerite = daisy). It is sometimes used as an independent name.
Read More About This ForenameDaisy Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 99% | 120,130 | 1:882 | 166 |
| United States | 100% | 71,509 | 1:5,070 | 724 |
| Kenya | 100% | 54,135 | 1:855 | 170 |
| India | 100% | 13,842 | 1:87,768 | 10,867 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 13,189 | 1:2,290 | 340 |
| Brazil | 100% | 12,760 | 1:16,790 | 1,631 |
| England | 100% | 11,750 | 1:4,732 | 526 |
| Cuba | - | 10,913 | 1:1,054 | 234 |
| Mexico | 100% | 7,584 | 1:16,369 | 1,113 |
| South Africa | 99% | 7,016 | 1:7,773 | 1,394 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 6,540 | 1:2,584 | 489 |
| Belgium | 100% | 6,219 | 1:1,848 | 418 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 5,400 | 1:883 | 192 |
| Honduras | 100% | 5,370 | 1:1,642 | 284 |
| Chile | 100% | 5,111 | 1:3,445 | 415 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 5,111 | 1:1,595 | 188 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 4,973 | 1:2,098 | 340 |
| Jamaica | - | 4,894 | 1:589 | 132 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 4,729 | 1:3,262 | 560 |
| Colombia | 100% | 4,641 | 1:10,295 | 914 |
| Canada | 100% | 4,129 | 1:8,025 | 1,026 |
| China | - | 3,871 | 1:352,895 | 22,301 |
| Mozambique | - | 3,840 | 1:7,095 | 1,242 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 3,699 | 1:960 | 157 |
| Uganda | 99% | 3,649 | 1:11,224 | 1,087 |
| Ecuador | - | 3,255 | 1:5,446 | 584 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 3,169 | 1:2,284 | 468 |
| Peru | 100% | 3,085 | 1:10,305 | 1,152 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 3,077 | 1:83,836 | 9,741 |
| Malawi | 100% | 2,538 | 1:6,742 | 862 |
| Zambia | - | 2,495 | 1:6,355 | 812 |
| France | 100% | 2,376 | 1:27,976 | 1,109 |
| Bangladesh | 100% | 2,200 | 1:72,482 | 5,501 |
| Panama | 100% | 2,151 | 1:1,816 | 366 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,982 | 1:15,546 | 2,113 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 1,949 | 1:15,623 | 1,627 |
| El Salvador | - | 1,769 | 1:3,585 | 426 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,678 | 1:105,819 | 5,857 |
| Gabon | 100% | 1,604 | 1:1,174 | 272 |
| Sudan | - | 1,586 | 1:23,838 | 2,295 |
| Ghana | 100% | 1,573 | 1:17,156 | 1,373 |
| Australia | - | 1,372 | 1:9,955 | 951 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 1,246 | 1:6,592 | 813 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 951 | 1:611 | 129 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 930 | 1:22,365 | 2,897 |
| Egypt | 100% | 868 | 1:105,877 | 4,800 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 736 | 1:14,404 | 1,247 |
| Hong Kong | - | 665 | 1:11,658 | 1,166 |
| Thailand | 100% | 593 | 1:118,155 | 9,391 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 567 | 1:10,614 | 1,092 |
| Germany | 100% | 539 | 1:179,365 | 2,929 |
| Sweden | 100% | 514 | 1:19,179 | 1,364 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 509 | 1:31,647 | 1,409 |
| Botswana | 95% | 470 | 1:4,648 | 789 |
| New Zealand | - | 450 | 1:10,080 | 1,068 |
| Qatar | 100% | 447 | 1:5,301 | 859 |
| Scotland | 100% | 447 | 1:11,969 | 766 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 430 | 1:55,278 | 8,099 |
| Israel | 100% | 421 | 1:19,959 | 1,892 |
| Wales | 100% | 413 | 1:7,492 | 712 |
| Congo | 73% | 398 | 1:12,586 | 1,499 |
| Spain | 100% | 396 | 1:117,500 | 3,147 |
| Bahamas | - | 375 | 1:1,065 | 267 |
| Mauritius | - | 351 | 1:3,697 | 640 |
| Vanuatu | - | 345 | 1:759 | 206 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 325 | 1:162,426 | 7,426 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 324 | 1:10,579 | 772 |
| Saint Martin | - | 307 | 1:116 | 41 |
| Portugal | - | 304 | 1:34,246 | 1,362 |
| Belize | 100% | 300 | 1:1,181 | 246 |
| Denmark | - | 269 | 1:21,002 | 1,217 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 266 | 1:81,242 | 4,549 |
| Singapore | 100% | 244 | 1:25,767 | 4,279 |
| Italy | 100% | 231 | 1:264,338 | 3,456 |
| Argentina | 100% | 215 | 1:198,945 | 2,461 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 202 | 1:6,740 | 1,106 |
| Ireland | 100% | 200 | 1:23,218 | 1,069 |
| Iraq | 100% | 188 | 1:186,265 | 3,333 |
| Poland | 98% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| Lebanon | 99% | 170 | 1:33,103 | 1,962 |
| DR Congo | 94% | 164 | 1:450,168 | 16,251 |
| Oman | - | 156 | 1:26,338 | 2,030 |
| Estonia | 100% | 148 | 1:8,888 | 1,060 |
| Liberia | 96% | 143 | 1:30,854 | 1,879 |
| Kuwait | - | 142 | 1:26,657 | 2,664 |
| Namibia | - | 141 | 1:17,051 | 1,642 |
| Barbados | - | 130 | 1:2,229 | 476 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 126 | 1:789 | 132 |
| Bahrain | - | 118 | 1:11,429 | 1,802 |
| Fiji | - | 115 | 1:7,760 | 1,571 |
| French Polynesia | - | 103 | 1:2,698 | 564 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 101 | 1:1,924,333 | 26,710 |
| Brunei | 100% | 93 | 1:4,512 | 458 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 90 | 1:1,030 | 246 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 84 | 1:1,307 | 267 |
| Suriname | 100% | 82 | 1:6,742 | 1,371 |
| Guyana | 100% | 81 | 1:9,423 | 1,435 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 79 | 1:2,430 | 463 |
| Vietnam | - | 74 | 1:1,251,664 | 2,862 |
| Finland | 100% | 72 | 1:76,155 | 2,075 |
| Japan | - | 71 | 1:1,802,621 | 18,954 |
| Guam | - | 66 | 1:2,434 | 508 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 65 | 1:4,156 | 621 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 64 | 1:854 | 170 |
| Norway | 100% | 61 | 1:84,137 | 2,907 |
| Micronesia | - | 56 | 1:1,902 | 283 |
| Greece | 100% | 54 | 1:202,492 | 4,105 |
| South Korea | - | 51 | 1:108,714 | 5,370 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 49 | 1:144,667 | 358 |
| Russia | 83% | 48 | 1:3,004,869 | 17,521 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 47 | 1:1,090 | 129 |
| Aruba | - | 42 | 1:2,471 | 502 |
| Austria | 100% | 40 | 1:212,855 | 3,107 |
| Angola | - | 36 | 1:749,072 | 2,190 |
| Myanmar | - | 36 | 1:1,443,008 | 744 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 33 | 1:17,092 | 1,131 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 32 | 1:1,916 | 431 |
| Czechia | 100% | 31 | 1:343,747 | 2,102 |
| American Samoa | - | 29 | 1:1,926 | 312 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 28 | 1:65,827 | 1,311 |
| Grenada | 100% | 28 | 1:3,862 | 674 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 28 | 1:1,959 | 443 |
| Nepal | 100% | 26 | 1:1,095,667 | 22,700 |
| Malta | - | 23 | 1:18,668 | 1,434 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 22 | 1:325,091 | 16,440 |
| Ivory Coast | 91% | 21 | 1:1,098,854 | 31,525 |
| Jersey | - | 20 | 1:4,999 | 624 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 20 | 1:5,579 | 946 |
| Iceland | 50% | 17 | 1:21,530 | 1,463 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 16 | 1:1,953 | 463 |
| Guernsey | - | 16 | 1:3,958 | 490 |
| Macau | - | 15 | 1:40,547 | 508 |
| Afghanistan | 100% | 12 | 1:2,718,626 | 20,989 |
| Cape Verde | 100% | 12 | 1:44,096 | 2,193 |
| Iran | - | 12 | 1:6,541,406 | 22,263 |
| Croatia | 100% | 11 | 1:383,371 | 4,897 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 10 | 1:1,326 | 247 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 9 | 1:1,808,148 | 22,232 |
| Ethiopia | - | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Maldives | 63% | 9 | 1:48,211 | 1,554 |
| Morocco | - | 9 | 1:3,816,515 | 8,291 |
| Palestine | 100% | 9 | 1:505,562 | 3,190 |
| Romania | - | 9 | 1:2,227,997 | 23,879 |
| Rwanda | - | 9 | 1:1,263,493 | 1,939 |
| Albania | 100% | 8 | 1:380,821 | 15,237 |
| Lesotho | 100% | 8 | 1:255,000 | 16,349 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 8 | 1:729 | 173 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 8 | 1:22,227 | 2,229 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 7 | 1:7,018 | 922 |
| Jordan | 100% | 6 | 1:1,471,129 | 7,316 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 6 | 1:2,957,808 | 19,121 |
| Algeria | - | 5 | 1:7,635,344 | 12,071 |
| Belarus | 100% | 5 | 1:1,896,477 | 8,406 |
| Cyprus | - | 5 | 1:174,215 | 3,223 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Moldova | - | 4 | 1:890,285 | 4,314 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Tunisia | - | 4 | 1:169,226 | 7,289 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Turkey | 100% | 3 | 1:25,933,903 | 52,822 |
| Armenia | - | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Hungary | 99% | 2 | 1:4,895,886 | 4,852 |
| Slovenia | - | 2 | 1:1,229,379 | 6,326 |
| Bhutan | - | 1 | 1:824,928 | 6,865 |
| Chad | 100% | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Curaçao | - | 1 | 1:155,803 | 1,239 |
| Dominica | - | 1 | 1:75,471 | 1,341 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | 100% | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Haiti | - | 1 | 1:10,726,953 | 41,696 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montserrat | - | 1 | 1:4,876 | 752 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Niger | 100% | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Ukraine | - | 1 | 1:45,499,908 | 32,056 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 1 | 1:13,529 | 157 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Daïsy (9) & Daísy (2) are calculated separately.
Daisy (5,464) may also be a surname.
Daisy Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a late-Victorian pet-name for Margaret (marguerite = daisy). It is sometimes used as an independent name.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Said by Helena Swan to be ‘an English pet-name for Margaret (“pearl”)’ and omitted from her glossary by Charlotte Yonge, who does not, however, list it among the nine variants she ascribes to Margaret. Surely it is the flower, which is A. -S. ‘dœges eage, day’s eye, from its opening in the morning and also from its appearance’ (Weekley).
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A female name derived from the flower, whose name in Anglo-Saxon signifies ‘day’s eye.’
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
A Anglo-Saxon name, meaning: Day’s eye. Some authorities declare this to be a nickname for Margaret, pearl.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
User-submitted Reference
The name of a flower, meaning 'day's eye'.
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