Ansley

Where Ansley comes from

From Old English ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ansley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    Ansley J. Coale born
    American demographer
  2. 1960
    First appearance
    #6,390 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1982
    Ansley Cargill born
    American tennis player
  5. 2011
    Peak, #616
    470 babies named Ansley — more than any year before or since.
  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.