Ansar

#5,874 in 2025Boys' name

Helpers

Ansar has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #5,874 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Ansar, 2025

1 in 221,000

Ansar over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ansar: meaning, origin, and history

Helpers

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ansar means

Ansar means “helpers”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 154 boys were recorded with the name Ansar between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2024; its best national rank was #5,452 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,790 in 2020 to #5,874 in 2025.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Ansar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 114,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #5,874; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Ansar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ansar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ansars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ansar was born before 2017 — so the typical Ansar is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2020s; 40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 82.5%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 154; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2020s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (63).

Is Ansar 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: −422; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +2,916; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 88.2%; Peak was 2024 (17)
Years since peak: 1; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,452; 2024

Spellings of Ansar

Ansar is not the most common spelling — Cesar is, with 52.4% against Ansar's 0.10%.

Cesar52.4%78,824
Asa14.1%21,166
Anson5.3%7,932
Caesar3.6%5,445
Amar3.3%4,989
Ansel3.2%4,801
Ander3.0%4,549
Ammar2.1%3,083

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.

Where Ansar is used

Across 1910–2025, Ansar was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,706,895 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ansar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ansar around the world

Where Ansar 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
1997–2023
#3,524
in 2023
France
2008–2025
#4,377
in 2025

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.

Ansar by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #5,874
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 2,916
Best rank ever: #5,452; 2024
Peak year: 2024; 17 that year
First recorded: 1978
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 154
Count in 2025: 15

Names similar to Ansar

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

Ansen Anselm Anshul Ausar Asar Ansley Munasar Ansil Ansh Ansel Sesar Ansem Ensar Anson Anshu Anselmo Anshuman Eliasar Ansor Anslem Ansony Ansu Anshel Elessar

Sibling names for Ansar

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

Leonor Karleigh Keren Kendyl Hayleigh Shaniya Taniya Jazmyne

For a brother

Evans Hamilton Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden Kale Henri

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