# Ansley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/ansley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | “hermitage”, “woodland clearing”, “glade” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Anslee |
| US babies named this | 12,168 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 290 / 11,878 (98% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Old English ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 470 | 616 |
| 2012 | 404 | 696 |
| 2013 | 417 | 679 |
| 2014 | 464 | 617 |
| 2015 | 467 | 618 |
| 2016 | 412 | 698 |
| 2017 | 363 | 764 |
| 2018 | 347 | 786 |
| 2019 | 274 | 960 |
| 2020 | 268 | 953 |
| 2021 | 257 | 996 |
| 2022 | 229 | 1,090 |
| 2023 | 211 | 1,151 |
| 2024 | 174 | 1,318 |
| 2025 | 170 | 1,309 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 5 | 10,004 |
| 2000 | 9 | 6,877 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7,567 |
| 2002 | 5 | 10,779 |
| 2003 | 6 | 9,645 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,027 |
| 2006 | 7 | 9,642 |
| 2007 | 7 | 9,841 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,087 |
| 2010 | 9 | 8,185 |
| 2011 | 7 | 9,671 |
| 2012 | 8 | 8,913 |
| 2013 | 6 | 10,819 |
| 2014 | 6 | 10,799 |
| 2015 | 6 | 10,750 |

## People named Ansley

- Ansley Cargill, American tennis player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.