Ansa

Girls' name

Possibly trap

Ansa has been given to 34 babies in the U.S. since 1988. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2018, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Ansa, 2022

1 in 564,000

Ansa over time, 1880–2025

Girls

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ansa: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly trap

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ansa means

Ansa may mean “trap”, associated with ansa.

Origin, language, and formation

Ansa is used in Finnish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anna.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Ansa is pronounced /ˈɑnsɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 34 girls were recorded with the name Ansa between 1988 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2018; its best national rank was #11,888 in 1995.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Ansa?

Ansa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 564,000; 6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 273,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 391,139 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ansa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ansa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ansas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ansa was born before 2014 — so the typical Ansa is around 11 today.

Median birth year: 2014; About 11 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 67.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 34; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Ansa rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2018 (7)
Years since peak: 7; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #11,888; 1995

Spellings of Ansa

Ansa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 17.4% against Ansa's <0.01%.

Lisa17.4%967,229
Anna16.5%914,859
Ann8.5%470,261
Ava6.2%344,097
Anne5.9%325,128
Wanda5.1%281,214
Anita3.9%215,165
Dana3.5%193,555

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Ansa around the world

Where Ansa ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
1996–2022
#5,670
in 2022
France
2021–2021
#7,203
in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Ansa by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #11,888; 1995
Peak year: 2018; 7 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 34
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Ansa

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Ansha Anshi Anslei Anslea Ansel Ansal Anshu Minsa Ansli Anson Sansa Lensa Aransa Ansonia Anansa Anshita Anslie Anshika Karensa Anselma Anslee Khansa Alfonsa Lorensa

Sibling names for Ansa

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Oaklyn Keily Zaylee Khaleesi Emberly Landry Jemma Keren

For a brother

Torin Kamryn Levon Merrick Bilal Mordechai Zaid Brecken

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