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In the US, there's an annoying singer named Poppy, so no, I don't like it. I also just almost typed Poopy.

I find the flower pretty and I like what it symbolizes. However, the name is far too cutesy and cartoonish for me to use on a real child. I don't hate it on someone else's child the way some on these boards do but I do understand where they are coming from.

It's a GP for me. With a growing number of Spanish speakers in my area, I figure it would get annoying to hear Papi/poppy so often.

I want to like it, because we use it as our symbol of Armistice Day remembrance, which is probably one of the influences on the popularity of the name.

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However, I have never warmed to it, because it sounds quite infantile to my ears.

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I've always thought it could work as a 'nickname' for Penelope, which would be better than it being used as a given name.

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I should stress, I don't dislike it, I just don't like it either!

It feels too informal for me to love it. And I don't love all the p's, either. But I don't hate it either because I do like flower names in general. I could imagine a person who could pull it off.

I love flower names, I really do. But not Poppy uggghh. It’s poopy and grandpas. I really can’t stand it.

It always makes me think of opium.

I think it's a lovely name.

Words cannot express how much I hate this name. Words cannot express the level of my disbelief that it's so popular in the UK.

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Words cannot express my level of dismay at seeing it enter the US top thousand for the first time ever in 2016.

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Words cannot express how little gratitude I will feel towards the UK if Poppy becomes as popular here as it is there.

It reminds me of opium, but that is because I think they are used to make opium? I also like it, despite that.

Floppy! I'm not keen on flower names as a rule - there are a couple of exceptions - and Poppy came from nowhere, zoomed up the charts and probably won't last.

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It could work as a nn for Penelope, which already has some good nn options that she could choose from if Poppy ever seemed too dated or ephemeral.

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I've also got a secret dread about poppycock! In English it just means 'rubbish!' or 'nonsense!', and it's the same in Dutch (pappe kak) except that the literal meaning there is 'soft shit'.

I think within the BTN community I am in the minority, because I love the name Poppy. I don't understand how so many people here hate it and find it childish. To me it's just another flower name, so I find it pretty.

Pimples

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Its all I can think of. I immediately think of popping pimples, unfortunately. Its a shame because the flower is so pretty and should give me better imagery.