Wisteria is the name of a flowering vine with cascading purple blooms. The plant was named for Caspar Wistar, an 18th-century American physician.
Wisteria is rare as a given name but rising — part of the broader return of unusual botanical names. The character Wednesday Addams's pet vine is named Wisteria; the plant's dramatic cascading look has cultural caché.
Wisteria does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wisteria reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.