as a First Name
19th-century coinage, from the word for the garden flower, which is named from Old French pensee ‘thought’. This was never particularly popular, and is seldom chosen at all now that the word pansy has acquired a derogatory slang sense denoting an effeminate man.
| 2,622nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,468
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 6,492
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Pansy per capita
- 1911
- marked the height of its popularity
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