Anslee
Feminine · “hermitage clearing”
Anslee is a respelling of Ainsley, a Scottish and English place name — a clearing, with a first element that has been read two ways for a century.
How old is the name Anslee?
Anslee first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Anslee is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,400 people named Anslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Anslee most popular?
Anslee peaked in 2014, reaching #2049 nationally. Today it ranks #3832, 1,783 places below that high. See the whole 2014 chart.
Where it comes from
From anset leah to Anslee
The story of Anslee
Ainsley and Annesley are English and Scottish places, and families took their names. The surname moved into Scottish and then American given names, first for boys in the mid-twentieth century and then heavily for girls. Anslee is one of the girls' respellings, shortening the front and simplifying the ending in the way American naming does.
Meaningscholars disagree
hermitage clearing, or Anne's meadow
The place name joins Old English leah, a clearing, to a first element read either as anset, a hermitage, or as a personal name. The gloss connecting it to Anne is folk etymology added after the name became a women's one.
How the name formed
- anset leah
- Ainsley
- Anslee
Related forms: Ainsley · Annesley
Pronouncing Anslee
ANZ-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. Ainsley is said AYNZ-lee, which is a real difference.
Nicknames for Anslee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 201495 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2049reached in 2014
- Change vs 2024
- +58.3%38 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Anslee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ainsley in English — spelling variant
- Annesley in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama.
Anslees among us
people named Anslee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 42,297 born in 2025 was named Anslee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Anslee
- #3832
- Anslee on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Anslee went to 38 girls in 2025, but Annslee is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,932 places above the chart.
- Anslee38
- Annslee22
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 42,297 for Anslee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Noemy test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Anslee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Noemy climbed just as high around 1998, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Noemy's path sketches the road Anslee is walking now.
Anslee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Anslee is headed
Anslee is easing off slowly — about 29% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Anslee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Anslee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented place-name meaning with a real English landscape behind it.
- Ann and Lee are both complete names in their own right.
- Six letters and two syllables, quick to write.
- Ainsley is the standard spelling and is said with a different first vowel.
- Anslee, Ansley, Ainslee and Ainsley are four live spellings and they diverge in sound.
- The connection to Anne is a later reinterpretation, not the origin.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anslees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Anslee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Anslee?
- Anslee is the most-used spelling in US records — 38 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Annslee.
- How popular is the name Anslee in 2025?
- Anslee ranks #3832 among US girl names in 2025, with 38 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Anslee?
- About 1 in every 42,297 US girls born in 2025 was named Anslee — 38 in all.
- Will my child share the name Anslee with classmates?
- Anslee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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