girls:
5 births since 2016
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
117 births since 2008
#4469 (2nd percentile)
overall:
122 births since 2008
#7617 (2nd percentile)
The name Anzel is the #7,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,469 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2016.
Anzel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Anzel is available in 14 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (14 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 Anzel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Anzel reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #922) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Anzel ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 63.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anzel reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 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 "Anzel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Anzel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Anzel is pronounced as AN-zuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-zehl, at 37.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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