Tansy
About Tansy
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,
Pronounced TAN-zee.
As of October 2026, Tansy ranked #7454 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #4506 in 1930.
Editor's take: The name Tansy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "immortality".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Tansy on lists
Famous Tansys
- 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
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