Ansley

Where Ansley comes from

From Old English ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ansley
  • Vowel-ended
Ansley through the years
  1. 1917
    Ansley J. Coale born
    American demographer
  2. 1960
    First appearance
    #6,390 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1960
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  4. 1982
    Ansley Cargill born
    American tennis player
  5. 2011
    Peak, #616
    470 babies named Ansley, the most in any year.
  6. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,089.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Ansley Cargill · American tennis player, born 1982
  • Ansley J. Coale · American demographer, 1917–2002
  • Ansley Truitt · American basketball player, 1950–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.