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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

Births per year: Anselmo against Anson, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

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.

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 2,7487,937
Most in one year 41302
Babies in 2025 694
Estimated living today 1,8006,800
Median age today 4117
Peak year 19902016
Best rank 1,870th boys785th boys
Rank in 2025 10,695th1,728th
First recorded 19071880
Girls / boys 0 / 2,7485 / 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

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.