Ansley is a girl's name of English origin meaning “hermitage and woodland clearing, glade.” In 2024 it was given to 174 girls in the United States.
Ansley belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “hermitage and woodland clearing, glade” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Ansley first appears in Social Security records in 1960. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #616 in 2011, and in 2024 174 babies received the name — 11,705 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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Ansley means “hermitage and woodland clearing, glade” in its English roots. We check every meaning against published sources before it appears here.
Ansley is a girl name. In 2024, 174 babies received the name in the US.
Ansley comes from the English & American tradition.
Ansley first appears in US records in 1960. Its best-ever ranking was #616 in 2011, and 174 babies were given the name in 2024.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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