Wisteria
Wisteria is a girl name of English origin, meaning The cascading purple vine.
What Wisteria means
The cascading purple vine.
Wisteria sits at 8 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room. Its 4 vowels give it a flowing rhythm.
Where Wisteria comes from
English names come from a long layering of Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and biblical sources. Many began as surnames, place names, or occupations before they were ever used as first names.
Wisteria is recorded as English in origin. Browse other English names.
How popular is Wisteria?
Wisteria does not currently chart in the top 100 girl names. Rankings move constantly, and names can spend decades out of the lists before returning — so this says more about the present moment than about the name itself.
The character of Wisteria
Wisteria spans flowers and growing things and the natural world, which is why it can read differently depending on which association you notice first. Both threads are worth following.
Names like Wisteria
These share Wisteria's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Lily — The lily flower — purity and beauty.
- Bryony — To sprout; a climbing vine.
- Hadley — Field of heather.
- Heather — The flowering heath shrub.
- Marigold — The golden marigold flower.
- May — The hawthorn blossom; the fifth month.
- Meadow — A field of wildflowers.
- Petunia — The trumpet-shaped flower.
- Poppy — The bright red poppy flower.
- Primrose — First rose; first flower of spring.
- Briar — A wild, thorny rose bush.
More English names
- Winter — The cold, still season.
- Wren — The small, spirited songbird.
- Winston — From the joyful town.
- Wyatt — Brave in war.
- Winona — First-born daughter.
- Willow — Willow tree — grace and flexibility.
- Wilfred — One who wishes for peace.
- Wilder — Untamed; of the wild.
- Wilbur — Resolute and brilliant.
- Weston — From the western town.