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Ansen

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Ansen is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Agnes”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Ansen mean?

English: spelling of Anson

“son of Agnes”

An English surname transferred from the given name meaning "son of Agnes".

Meaning borrowed from Anson. From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Ansen a girl's or a boy's name?

Ansen is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ansen in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Ansen, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1977.

Half of all the boys named Ansen in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 104 boys in the US were given Ansen or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,443, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.

1977Busiest: 16 in 20142025
Ansen in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
202415#5,899
202314#6,215
20229#8,293
202114#6,027
20208#8,734
201910#7,638
201810#7,613
201711#7,091
201613#6,344
201511#7,061
201416#5,481
20139#8,113
20129#8,152
201110#7,495
201012#6,692
20099#8,305
20088#9,013
200710#7,586
200611#6,899
200512#6,220
200414#5,487
20037#8,636
20027#8,449
20019#6,928
20000–
19995#9,905
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19810–
19805#6,248
19790–
19780–
19775#5,843

Names like Ansen

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ansen

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