boys:
751 births since 1883
#3836 (16th percentile)
overall:
751 births since 1883
#6988 (10th percentile)
The name Ancel is the #6,988 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 751 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,836 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 751 births since 1883.
Ancel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (first recorded for boys in 1883). Birth data for Ancel is available in 72 out of the 137 years between 1883 and 2019. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ancel reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #515) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 49 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ancel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ancel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.4% confident that Ancel is pronounced as AN-suhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-sehl, at 23.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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