Daisy

Daisy is a feminine given name, commonly thought to be derived from the name of the flower. The flower name comes from the Old English word dægeseage, meaning "day's eye". The name Daisy is therefore ultimately derived from this source. Daisy is also a nickname for Margaret, used because Marguerite, the French version of that name, is also a French name for the oxeye daisy. It came into popular use in the late Victorian era along with other flower names. Authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran wrote in their 2007 book Baby Name Bible that Daisy has a "fresh, wholesome, and energetic" image. The name has been used for literary characters such as Daisy Miller, the title character of the novella by Henry James, and for television characters such as Daisy Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard. Very short, form-fitting, denim cut-off jeans shorts are named Daisy Dukes after this character.
Daisy was the 166th most popular name for girls born in the United States in 2011. It was in steady use for American girls throughout the 20th century and was ranked among the top 200 names for girls between 1900 and 1940. It declined in popularity between 1960 and 1980, but has been climbing in popularity since the 1980s. It was the 294th most common name for all females during the 1990 United States census. Daisy was the 17th most popular name for girls born in England and Wales in 2010 and the 44th most popular name for girls born in Scotland in 2010. It was among the top five names given to girls born in Guernsey in 2010.

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Old English dægesege, from dæges eage "day's eye," because the petals open at dawn and close at dusk. (See day (n.) + eye (n.)). In Medieval Latin it was solis oculus "sun's eye." As a female proper name said to have been originally a pet form of Margaret (q.v.). Daisy-cutter first attested 1791, originally of horses that trot with low steps; later of cricket (1889) and baseball hits that skim along the ground. Daisy-chain in the "group sex" sense is attested from 1941. Pushing up daisies "dead" is attested from 1918, but variants with the same meaning go back to 1842.

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From Old English, means: from the south, day's eye. Also a flower name.

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Daisy Ridley	1992	British actress
2	Daisy Lowe	1989	British model
3	Daisy Johnson
4	Daisy Shah	1984	Indian film actress
5	Daisy Fuentes	1966	American model and actress
6	Daisy Duke		Fictional character
7	Daisy Marie	1984	American pornographic actress, model & feature dancer
8	Daisy Head	1991	British actress
9	Daisy Duck		Fictional character
10	Daisy Bevan	1992	British actress
11	Daisy Buchanan		Fictional character from The Great Gatsby
12	Daisy Bopanna	1982	Indian actress
13	Princess Daisy		Fictional character from the Mario franchise
14	Daisy Haggard	1978	British actress
15	Daisy Betts	1982	Australian actress
16	Daisy Donovan	1975	British actor and television presenter
17	Daisy Tahan	2001	American actress
18	Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick	1861	British countess
19	Daisy Lewis		Actress
20	Daisy Eagan	1979	American actress
21	Daisy Goodwin	1961	British television producer
22	Daisy Wood-Davis	1990	British actress
23	Daisy de Melker	1886	South African nurse
24	Daisy Irani		Indian television actor
25	Daisy d'Errata	1962	French film director and television presenter
26	Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri	1955	Pintupi– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous Australian artist
27	Daisy Beaumont	1973	British actress
28	Daisy Fellowes	1890	French noble
29	Daisy Pearce	1988	Australian rules footballer
30	Daisy Carter
31	Daisy Reyes
32	Daisy Turner	1883	American storyteller
33	Daisy Gardner	1976	American screenwriter
34	Daisy McAndrew	1972	British journalist
35	Daisy Dee	1970	Dutch singer
36	Daisy Earles	1907	German actress
37	Daisy Waugh	1967	English journalist
38	Daisy McCrackin	1981	American actor, singer-songwriter and composer
39	Gert and Daisy
40	Daisy von Scherler Mayer	1966	American film and television director
41	Daisy Dares You	1993	British musician
42	Daisy Soros
43	Daisy Lemay
44	Daisy Ashford	1881	English writer
45	Daisy Avellana	1917	Actor (1917-2013)
46	Daisy Van Praet	1982	Belgian actress
47	Daisy May Queen	1965	Argentinian writer
48	Daisy Martinez		American chef
49	Daisy Christodoulou
50	Daisy Khan		Muslim activist
51	Daisy O'Brian Maclaren		Character in the TV Series Chica Vampiro
52	Daisy Romualdez		Filipino actress
53	Daisy Dunn		English writer
54	Daisy Van Cauwenbergh	1968	Belgian model
55	Daisy Meadows	1958	House pseudonym of the Rainbow Magic writers
56	Daisy Lang	1972	Bulgarian martial artist
57	Daisy Voisin	1924	Trinidad and Tobago musician
58	Daisy Thys	1969	Belgian actress
59	Daisy Summers	1993	American pornographic actress
60	Daisy Masterman	1990
61	Daisy Zamora	1950	Nicaraguan writer
62	Daisy Martey		British singer
63	Daisy Elliott	1916	American politician and realtor
64	Aunt Daisy	1879	New Zealand broadcaster
65	Blue Daisy
66	Daisy Burrell	1892	British actress
67	Daisy Lumini	1936	Italian actress and musician
68	Daisy de Galard	1929	French journalist
69	Daisy Fisher	1888	English novelist and playwright
70	Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin	1883	American activist
71	Daisy Douglas Barr	1875	American minister and political activist
72	Daisy Granados	1942	Cuban actress
73	Daisy Mallory	1993	American musician
74	Daisy Aitkens	1986	English actress and TV writer
75	Daisy Cleverley	1997	Association footballer
76	Daisy Mrázková	1923	Czech children's author and artist
77	Daisy Makeig-Jones	1881	British artist
78	Daisy Evans	1989	Singer
79	Daisy Cocco De Filippis	1949	American community college president
80	Daisy Hernández	1975	American writer
81	Jason Daisy	1974	American professional basketball player
82	Daisy Kennedy	1893	Australian musician
83	Daisy Sweeney	1920	Canadian music teacher
84	Daisy D'ora	1913	German actress
85	Daisy Jopling	1969	British musician
86	Daisy Rossi	1879
87	Daisy Dormer	1883	English music hall singer
88	Daisy Youngblood	1945	American sculptor
89	Daisy Fried	1967	American writer
90	Daisy Cakes	2005	Chinese actor and model
91	Daisy Dern	1967	American musician
92	Daisy Dick	1972	British equestrian
93	Daisy de la Hoya	1983	American model
94	Daisy Li Yuet-Wah		Hong Kong journalist
95	Daisy Junor	1919	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
96	Daisy Al-Amir	1935	Iraqi writer
97	Daisy Watkins
98	Daisy Wood	1877	Music hall singer, sister of Marie Lloyd
99	Daisy Tourné	1951	Uruguayan politician
100	Daisy Bates	1859	Irish Australian journalist known for her work with Aboriginal People
101	Daisy Campbell		British actress
102	Daisy Voog	1932	Estonian-German mountain climber
103	Daisy Torres	1956	Nicaraguan politician who is the current mayor of Managua.
104	Daisy Nielsen	1994
105	Daisy Martin		African American actress and blues singer
106	Daisy W. Okocha	1951	Nigerian judge
107	Daisy Ragole		Belgian criminal
108	Daisy Davis	1858	Major League Baseball player
109	Daisy Rosario
110	Daisy Ocasio	1964	Puerto Rican boxer and athlete
111	Daisy Hasan		Author
112	Daisy Ducati	1989	American pornoactress
113	Daisy Spies	1905	German music educator
114	Daisy de Lawayss	1862
115	Daisy Whitney		American journalist
116	Daisy Dussoix	1936	Swiss microbiologist and molecular biologist (1936-2014)
117	Daisy Grace		American accused of drugging her husband
118	Daisy Lúcidi	1929	Brazilian actress
119	Daisy Chapman	1979
120	Daisy Ba-ad		Filipino writer
121	Daisy Ejang	1986
122	Baby Daisy
123	Daisy Newman	1904	American writer
124	Daisy Hurst Floyd	1956	American lawyer
125	Daisy Georges-Martin	1898
126	Daisy Marchisotti	1904	Activist
127	Daisy Richards Bisz	1909	American lawyer
128	Daisy Curwen	1889	British swimmer, Olympic athlete, world record-holder
129	George Daisy	1857	American baseball player
130	Daisy de Bock	1974
131	Daisy Polk		American Comtesse de Buyer-Mimuere
132	Daisy Exposito-Ulla		American businesswoman
133	Daisy Auvray	2000	Swiss singer
134	Daisy Cordell		British actress
135	Daisy Webster	1911	British Columbian politician
136	Daisy Nyongesa	1989	Politician
137	Daisy Elizabeth Platts-Mills	1868	Doctor, community leader
138	Daisy Lawler	1942
139	Daisy Nieddu	1990	Belgian actress
140	Daisy Rock
141	Daisy Speranza	1801	French tennis player
142	Daisy Campi	1893	German painter
143	Daisy Harcourt		British entertainer
144	Daisy Door	1944	German singer
145	Daisy Hernández Gaytán	1983	Mexican politician
146	Tim Daisy	1976	American musician
147	Daisy de Peinder	1976	Dutch softball player
148	Daisy Maud Bellis	1887
149	Daisy	1984
150	Daisy Bufford	1913	American actress
151	Daisy Kaitano	1993
152	Daisy Baez
153	Daisy DeBolt	1945	Canadian pianist and songwriter
154	Daisy Bacca	1952	Swiss musician and pianist
155	Daisy Deomampo
156	Daisy Jacobs	1989
157	Daisy Jepkemei	1996	Kenyan runner
158	Daisy Schörling	1925
159	Daisy Hage	1993	Dutch handball player
160	Daisy Leura Nakamarra	1936	Australian painter
161	Daisy Nakalyango	1994	Badminton player
162	Daisy Sylvan
163	Daisy Schalling	1923	Swedish psychologist
164	Daisy Marguerite Hughes	1883
165	Daisy Schjelderup	1916	Norwegian writer (1916-1991)
166	Daisy Linda Ward	1883
167	Daisy Osakue	1996
168	Daisy Radcliffe Beresford	1879	British painter (1879-1939)