Anselmo vs Anson
American parents have registered 7,937 Ansons since 1880, against 2,748 Anselmos. Anson is still ahead, with 94 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Anselmo Anson
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 135 years in which either name was published, Anson for 107 years and Anselmo for 28 years. The lead changed hands 20 times.
- 1880–1924 Anson ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1930–1939 Anselmo ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1940–1942 Anson ahead
- 1945–1953 Anselmo ahead
- 1961–2025 Anson ahead, apart from one short spell
13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Anselmo | Anson | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 2,748 | 7,937 |
| Most in one year | 41 | 302 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | 94 |
| Estimated living today | 1,800 | 6,800 |
| Median age today | 41 | 17 |
| Peak year | 1990 | 2016 |
| Best rank | 1,870th boys | 785th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | 1,728th |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 2,748 | 5 / 7,932 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Anselmos alive today are over 41; half the Ansons are over 17. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Anselmo Texas (9.3×), New Mexico (6.7×), California (2.3×)
- Anson Hawaii (8.7×), California (2.5×), Texas (2.4×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anselmo and Anson.