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Ansell vs Ansley

American parents have registered 12,168 Ansleys since 1880, against 6 Ansells. Ansley is still ahead, with 170 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Ansell against Ansley, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Ansell Ansley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Ansley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1913 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1933, when Ansell had 6 and Ansley had 6.

Side by side

  Ansell Ansley
Total US births 612,168
Most in one year 6477
Babies in 2025 under 5170
Estimated living today 112,000
Median age today 9217
Peak year 19332011
Best rank 3,268th boys616th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,309th
First recorded 19331913
Girls / boys 0 / 611,878 / 290

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ansells alive today are over 92; half the Ansleys are over 17. That is 75 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Ansell and Ansley.