Tansy

Flower name, from Greek
"immortality"

Tansy Origin and Meaning

The name Tansy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "immortality".

Tansy is a flower name rarer than Rose, livelier than Lily and a lot less teasable than Pansy.

Tansy is a perennial herbaceous plant of the aster family that has clusters of small bright yellow blossoms. It was cultivated by the ancients for medicinal purposes, and has found a variety of other uses over the ages, associated with health and immortality.

There have been a couple of eponymous novels titled Tansy, and it was the name of a character on Hart of Dixie,

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Famous People Named Tansy

  • Tansy Davies
    English composer and conductor
  • Tansy Rayner Roberts
    Australian novelist
  • Tansy Aspinall
    daughter of John Aspinall, referred to as "daughter of the jungle"
  • Tansy Alexander
    American voice actor

The name Tansy in Pop Culture

  • Tansy Firle
    character in "Tansy" by Tickner Edwardes
  • Tansy Truitt
    character on TV's "Hart of Dixie"
  • Tansy Saylor/Taylor
    a main character in "Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber and film "Night of the Eagle"
  • Tansy
    hedgehog character (later the Abbess) in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
  • Tansy
    character mentioned by Hoster Tully on his deathbed in George R. R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" series ("A Storm of Swords")
  • Tansy Malone
    main character in "Tansy" by Maureen Peters

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