Ansley

Ansley is the 9,304th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,356 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 89,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,356
Rank: 9,304th
How common: 1 in 89,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English ānsetl (“hermitage”) + lēah (“woodland clearing, glade”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ansley described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.0%
Black, not Hispanic 20.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Ansley

Giselle Ansley (born 1992)British field hockey player
Michael Ansley (born 1967)American basketball player

People named Ansley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Ansley

Also a first name

Ansley has been given to 12,168 American babies as a first name since 1913, peaking in 2011. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.