Ansley
- Gender
- Girl
- US rank, 2025
- #1,309 for girls
Ansley is a girls' name, meaning “hermitage”. In 2025 it ranked 1,309th for girls in the US (170 babies).
What does Ansley mean?
“hermitage”
A female given name transferred from the surname.
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is Ansley a girl's or a boy's name?
Ansley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 170 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ansley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,309among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 170about 1 in 9,500 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 38% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 170 girls in the US were named Ansley, making it the 1,309th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 953rd. Its busiest year was 2011, with 470 girls. It first appears in the records in 1960.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 10 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Ansley than any year since 1995.
Half of all the girls named Ansley in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 188 girls in the US were given Ansley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,092, up from #1,309 for this spelling alone.
- Ansley 170
- Annsley 18
In 2015, 99% of the babies named Ansley in the US were girls.
Ansley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 170 | #1,309 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,317 |
| 2023 | 211 | #1,151 |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,089 |
| 2021 | 257 | #996 |
| 2020 | 268 | #953 |
| 2019 | 274 | #960 |
| 2018 | 347 | #786 |
| 2017 | 363 | #763 |
| 2016 | 412 | #698 |
| 2015 | 467 | #618 |
| 2014 | 464 | #617 |
| 2013 | 417 | #679 |
| 2012 | 404 | #695 |
| 2011 | 470 | #616 |
| 2010 | 462 | #637 |
| 2009 | 449 | #659 |
| 2008 | 414 | #719 |
| 2007 | 414 | #706 |
| 2006 | 404 | #703 |
| 2005 | 421 | #656 |
| 2004 | 412 | #663 |
| 2003 | 383 | #685 |
| 2002 | 370 | #680 |
| 2001 | 324 | #739 |
| 2000 | 300 | #762 |
| 1999 | 263 | #823 |
| 1998 | 289 | #750 |
| 1997 | 234 | #871 |
| 1996 | 201 | #956 |
| 1995 | 166 | #1,071 |
| 1994 | 166 | #1,081 |
| 1993 | 131 | #1,288 |
| 1992 | 112 | #1,431 |
| 1991 | 108 | #1,459 |
| 1990 | 99 | #1,539 |
| 1989 | 98 | #1,476 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,702 |
| 1987 | 74 | #1,646 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,264 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,947 |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,298 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,359 |
| 1982 | 41 | #2,369 |
| 1981 | 46 | #2,195 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,391 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,931 |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,859 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,715 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,361 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,259 |
| 1974 | 24 | #2,922 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,014 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,108 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,532 |
| 1970 | 16 | #3,711 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,056 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,488 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,299 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,865 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,951 |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,292 |
| 1961 | 6 | #5,850 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,389 |
Names like Ansley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ainsley Avery Aubrey Harley Marley Emely Addison Hadley Alina Abigail Journey Arielle
Other spellings of Ansley
Names related to Ansley
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ansley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ansley, updated 20 October 2026.