| The boy name Ansel [ 2 syll. an-sel, ans-el ] is pronounced as ahNSEHL KEY. Ansel is mainly used in the English language and it is of Germanic origin. Ansel is a variant form of the English and German name Anselm. Ansel is uncommon as a baby boy name. At the modest height of its usage in 1906, 0.006% of baby boys were given the name Ansel. It was #854 in rank then. The baby name has seen a decline in frequency since then, and is today used on a very light scale. Within all boy names in its family, Ansel was nonetheless the most popular in 2007. Baby names that sound like Ansel include the English Ancel, the English Ansell, the Yiddish Anshel, and the English and Italian Angelo. KEY: Pronunciation for Ansel: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)"
A famous person named Ansel is Photographer Ansel Adams, born 20 February 1902 - 22 April 1984, San Francisco, California. |