I have a friend whose name is Tansy and I think it is beautiful, but I also think that you have to be a certain kind of person or the name can be to much.
"Tansy", a boy, is the hero of one of Gail Carlson Lavine's novels. In the book, Tansy is a misunderstood prince that falls in love with a girl called "Parsley".
Tansy (Tan-zee) is a sweet little bunny character in the children's book The Surprising Armchair by Jean Gilder. I fell in love with the name reading the book as a child and now read it to my children.
In the movie Material Girls starring Hilary and Hailey Duff, Hilary plays a character named Tanzie, (spelled differently, but the same name.)
-- Anonymous User 9/4/2007
In Redwall, there's a hedgehog named Tansy. She's in Pearls of Lutra and The Long Patrol. In Pearls of Lutra, she has to find six pearls called the Pearls of Lutra as a ransom for the Abbot. Later she becomes the Abbess, and she is in this position during The Long Patrol. She made me like the name Tansy.
Tansy is a plant with many medicinal uses (a lot of which have now been discredited). It's well known for causing miscarriages in high doses, leading to its use as an abortifacient in the Middle Ages.