Pansy — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pansy

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,953 babies named Pansy between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pansy currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 273 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pansy performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 2,361 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Pansy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 1,182 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Pansy in 28 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pansy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,953 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.