Tansy

[Cassiehopes]

What do you think of this name? It’s always been my guilty pleasure name although I’m not sure why it makes me feel guilty. From Nameberry:

“The name Tansy is girl's name of Greek origin meaning "immortality".

Tansy is a flower name rarer than Rose, livelier than Lily and a lot less teasable than Pansy.

Tansy is a perennial herbaceous plant of the aster family that has clusters of small bright yellow blossoms. It was cultivated by the ancients for medicinal purposes, and has found a variety of other uses over the ages, associated with health and immortality.

There have been a couple of eponymous novels titled Tansy, and it was the name of a character on Hart of Dixie.”

It's cutesy, and that's what's wrong with it - along with the miscarriage herb angle. It's a big no for me.

It's cute but there's something about it that sounds a bit like an antiquated medical condition for some reason 'Oh, she's got the tansy!'.

It's a lovely unusual name with a long history. I really like it. (Although I also really like Tamsin suggested by a pp)

In Jilly Cooper's Riders, Jake Lovell keeps a tansy flower in his boot for luck.

It’s a lovely name and unusual without being over the top.

I think it's a bit... pathetic and twee? Very cute for a tiny baby or toddler as a cute hippy name, but not sure I could imagine being taken seriously as a professional, grown-up Tansy.

I think it's lovely. However, I agree with the PP who said that she'll forever have to say "not Pansy".

Love it 😍

I know a Tansy. She's bloody brilliant! It's an unusual name but I really quite like it.

It's lovely but not really for a grown up. Maybe a more conventional middle name so she can choose to use either later?

It's a bit wet lettuce in my opinion, and not a name for a serious adult woman.

As someone who enjoyed the Topsy and Tim books, I've always thought Tansy is a lovely name 😀

Does she have to be serious? What about Blythe, Joy etc?

Sounds a bit like a nickname to me…how about Tamsin nn (although maybe a stretch) Tansy

Really?

I think it’s great, which surprises me as my taste is usually the opposite of cutesy and twee. Definitely not having any more DC so I’m saving it for a hypothetical future dog!

There was a Tansy a couple of years below me at school; she was very cool and works in quite a glamorous artistic field now.

And yet the one I met in 1984 was a chartered accountant working in what is now a Big Four firm in London.

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g oh how wonderful

I know a very nice Tansi

Tansy is a character in Elsie J Oxenham's Abbey series of books for girls written in the first half of the 20th century.

It's lovely.

Well, if that's what floats your boat, yes, it was wonderful. Not too many women in firms like that back then and having just found her by the magic of the internet I see her 'cute hippy name' didn't hold her back from securing some very senior and responsible jobs.

Its awful. People wll think it's a nickname.

I don't mind it. But beware, the description 'member of the aster family that has clusters of small bright yellow blossoms' makes it sound quite pretty, and I personally don't think that it's as pretty as it sounds (here are some pictures of tansy for reference. Of course, that might not matter to you and that's fine!

I know a Tansy. She doesn't like her name. I do.