Wisteria
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- wiss-TEER-ee-ah
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #6,115 for girls
Wisteria is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “wisteria flower”. In 2025 it ranked 6,115th for girls in the US (19 babies).
What does Wisteria mean?
English: the flowering climber
“wisteria flower”
The plant was named by botanist Thomas Nuttall in 1818 after the American anatomist Caspar Wistar.
Is Wisteria a girl's or a boy's name?
Wisteria is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 19 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wisteria in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,115th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 19 about 1 in 85,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 161% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 19 girls in the US were named Wisteria, making it the 6,115th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had the most girls named Wisteria of any year since it first appeared, in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Wisteria in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Wisteria in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,115 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,404 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Wisteria
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Magnolia, Amelia, Aurelia, Ophelia, Lydia, Rosalia, Octavia, Amalia, Eliza, Georgia, Cordelia, Emilia
Names related to Wisteria
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Wisteria: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wisteria, updated 20 October 2026.