Ansel — #1286 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ansel

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,614 babies named Ansel between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ansel currently holds the #1286 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 171 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ansel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,204 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ansel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 549 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ansel in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ansel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 4,614 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.