Meaning not yet researched.
Ansley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 170 in 2025. Its best rank was #616 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #616 in 2011; #1,309 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ansley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,309 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #616.
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Ansley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 170 girls in 2025. Peak: #616 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 470 (2011).
In 2025, 170 US girls were named Ansley, making it the 1,309th most common girls’ name of the year, up 9 places from #1,318 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 174 girls named Ansley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #616, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 470. For comparison, it was #618 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ansley in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 5 babies. In all, 12,168 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,122 babies named Ansley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,705 US girls were named Ansley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 412. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ansley ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #386 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ainsley (20,896 babies since 1880), Ainslee (1,583 babies since 1880), Anslee (1,402 babies since 1880) and Annsley (917 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anslie, Anzlee and Ansli are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anslie (255), Anzlee (127), Ansli (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ansley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 11 | #386 | #216 |
| Georgia | 27 | #418 | #101 |
| Alabama | 11 | #441 | #167 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #565 | #224 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #609 | #235 |
| North Carolina | 15 | #662 | #271 |
| Missouri | 5 | #946 | #683 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,040 | #742 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,120 | #393 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,249 | #1,031 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,541 | #780 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,318 | — | — |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2021 | 257 | #996 | — | — |
| 2020 | 268 | #953 | — | — |
| 2019 | 274 | #960 | — | — |
| 2018 | 347 | #786 | — | — |
| 2017 | 363 | #764 | — | — |
| 2016 | 412 | #698 | — | — |
| 2015 | 467 | #618 | 6 | #10,750 |
| 2014 | 464 | #617 | 6 | #10,799 |
| 2013 | 417 | #679 | 6 | #10,819 |
| 2012 | 404 | #696 | 8 | #8,913 |
| 2011 | 470 | #616 | 7 | #9,671 |
| 2010 | 462 | #637 | 9 | #8,185 |
| 2009 | 449 | #659 | 6 | #11,087 |
| 2008 | 414 | #719 | — | — |
| 2007 | 414 | #706 | 7 | #9,841 |
| 2006 | 404 | #706 | 7 | #9,642 |
| 2005 | 421 | #657 | — | — |
| 2004 | 412 | #663 | 6 | #10,027 |
| 2003 | 383 | #685 | 6 | #9,645 |
| 2002 | 370 | #680 | 5 | #10,779 |
| 2001 | 324 | #739 | 8 | #7,567 |
| 2000 | 300 | #762 | 9 | #6,877 |
| 1999 | 263 | #824 | 5 | #10,004 |
| 1998 | 289 | #750 | — | — |
| 1997 | 234 | #872 | 6 | #8,183 |
| 1996 | 201 | #958 | — | — |
| 1995 | 166 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,083 | 5 | #8,854 |
| 1993 | 131 | #1,290 | — | — |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,435 | 5 | #8,500 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,544 | 6 | #7,223 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,481 | 8 | #5,650 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,705 | 6 | #6,466 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,648 | 5 | #7,018 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,266 | 6 | #5,967 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,372 | 7 | #5,041 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,198 | 8 | #4,531 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,933 | 5 | #6,102 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,372 | 5 | #5,629 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,270 | 5 | #5,502 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,022 | 9 | #3,460 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,123 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,546 | — | — |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,502 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,310 | 5 | #3,990 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,885 | — | — |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,963 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,317 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,873 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,438 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,732 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,747 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,449 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,152 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,545 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,290 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,021 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,177 |
| 1926 | — | — | 7 | #3,403 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,165 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,264 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,752 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,205 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #2,965 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,529 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #2,835 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).