Poet
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Poet by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Poet. In the US, 14 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 17 babies in 2008, making it a 2000s name.
What we can tell you about Poet
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Poet. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Poe11 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Poet
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