Variant spelling of Daisy, from the Old English 'dæges ēage' meaning 'day's eye,' referring to the flower.
Daisey is an affectionate variant spelling of Daisy, a name rooted in the Old English compound dægeseage — literally "day's eye" — because the flower opens its white petals at dawn and closes them at dusk. The image is quietly poetic: a name that begins each day fresh. The flower itself was sacred in Norse mythology to Freya, goddess of love and fertility, giving the name a pagan undertow beneath its cheerful English surface.
Daisy in its various spellings flourished as a given name in the Victorian era, when flower names became fashionable expressions of sentiment and natural beauty. Henry James gave the name literary immortality in his 1878 novella Daisy Miller, where it embodied a certain free-spirited American innocence navigating the constraints of European society. F.
Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby recast that innocence as something more complex and elusive — a golden voice full of money — ensuring the name would carry narrative depth for generations of readers. The Daisey spelling, with its softer visual rhythm and doubled vowel, was used interchangeably with Daisy through the nineteenth century and feels today like a heirloom variant — a little more deliberate, a little more handmade than the standard form. It suits a child who will carry a name rooted in flowers, folklore, and fiction.