Tansy
Tansy was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,452 among girls’ names; 391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Tansy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Tansy mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Tansy is “a female given name from English.”
From the plant tansy. Probable doublet of Athanasia.
/ˈtænzi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Tansy?
#7,452 among girls’ names, 2025
Tansy rose from #16,231 in 2015 to #7,452 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 9.3 per million.
15 babies in 2025, the peak
Tansy peaked in 2025, when 15 girls were given it, #7,452 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 8 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,452 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 8 | #12,045 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,995 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,987 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,995 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,338 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,477 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,530 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,188 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,231 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,868 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,031 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,648 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,921 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,163 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,314 | 3.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,906 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,892 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,141 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,821 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,942 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,907 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,678 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,224 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,273 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,058 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,758 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,188 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,856 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,970 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,408 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,219 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,095 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,974 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,183 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,182 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,544 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,941 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,318 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,560 | 8.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,294 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,366 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,549 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,836 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,792 | 3.6 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,200 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,530 | 2.6 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,954 | 2.9 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,503 | 5.3 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,668 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Tansy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Tansy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Tansy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Tansy, and how old are they?
An estimated 365 Americans named Tansy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 12 and 49. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 399 people named Tansy (393 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 321 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 656 babies since 1880, Tansy is the most given (60% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Tansy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Tansy and names like it
- Compare Tansy and TaniseBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sTansy peaked in 2025.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Tansy: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Tansy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Tansy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with TMost given first.