About the name Anselmo
Anselmo belongs to the Spanish and Portuguese tradition. Its roots are documented, even though its precise meaning is not recorded in the standard references — an honest gap we prefer to a confident guess.
In the United States, Anselmo first appears in Social Security records in 1907. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #1157 in 1932, and in 2024 19 babies received the name — 2,742 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.