Pansy

Where Pansy comes from

From pansy (“type of flower”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Pansy
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #628 among girls — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #287
    55 babies named Pansy — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1955
    Pansy Wong born
    New Zealand politician
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,345.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Pansy Wong · New Zealand politician, born 1955

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.