girls:
5 births since 2011
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
7.7k births since 1880
#1343 (71st percentile)
overall:
7.7k births since 1880
#3071 (60th percentile)
The name Anson is the #3,071 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,708 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 60.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,343 (70.7% percentile) for all time with 7,703 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2011.
Anson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2011 for girls). Birth data for Anson is available in 132 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (132 years for boys and 1 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 Anson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anson reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 30.7% percentile (ranked #634) with 149 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 149 births per million (ranked 30.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Anson ranks #768 for boys (15.7% percentile) with 81 births per million, which is 54.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anson reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anson".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Anson.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Anson", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Anson.
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Anson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Anson is pronounced as AN-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Anson? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Anson. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Anson, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N S AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker