girls:
10 births since 1918
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
4.5k births since 1882
#1814 (60th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1882
#4087 (47th percentile)
The name Ansel is the #4,087 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,470 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 47.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,814 (60.4% percentile) for all time with 4,460 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1918.
Ansel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Ansel is available in 131 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (131 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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.
The name Ansel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ansel reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 18.2% percentile (ranked #747) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 107 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ansel ranks #751 for boys (17.6% percentile) with 90 births per million, which is 83.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ansel reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #590) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ansel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ansel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.2% confident that Ansel is pronounced as AN-suhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uhn-SEHL, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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