Pansy
Pansy is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 289th, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1916273 births
- Best rank
- #289in 1887
- Since 1880
- 10,953people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,953 girls have been named Pansy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 273 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 273 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 73 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pansy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 316 | |
| 1890s | 719 | |
| 1900s | 968 | |
| 1910s | 2,045 | |
| 1920s | 2,361 | |
| 1930s | 1,896 | |
| 1940s | 1,069 | |
| 1950s | 813 | |
| 1960s | 474 | |
| 1970s | 196 | |
| 1980s | 61 | |
| 1990s | 29 | |
| 2010s | 6 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Pansy was the 379th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Pansy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Delphiapeak 1924
- Eulapeak 1919
- Oleviapeak 1921
- Elmapeak 1918
- Elvapeak 1918
- Letapeak 1918
- Fairypeak 1917
- Virgiepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.