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Anselmo

#10,784 in 2025Boys' name

English equivalent of Anselm

Anselmo has been given to 2,748 babies in the U.S. since 1907. In 2025 it ranked #10,784 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Anselmo, 2025

1 in 553,000

Anselmo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anselmo: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Anselm

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anselmo means

Anselmo is a English equivalent of Anselm.

Origin, language, and formation

Anselmo is used in Asturian, Cebuano, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anselm.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Asturian, Anselmo is pronounced /anˈselmo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,748 boys were recorded with the name Anselmo between 1907 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 1990; its best national rank was #1,157 in 1932.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,537 in 2020 to #10,784 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,521 in 2015 to #10,784 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anselmo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,784
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anselmo 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anselmo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anselmos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anselmo was born before 1968 — so the typical Anselmo is around 57 today.

Median birth year
1968
About 57 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
10.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,886
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1950s — 10.9% of all recorded uses (299).

Is Anselmo 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
−5,710
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,247
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,263
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.6%
Peak was 1990 (41)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,157
1932

Spellings of Anselmo

Anselmo is not the most common spelling — Angelo is, with 90.8% against Anselmo's 2.9%.

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 Anselmo is used

Across 1910–2025, Anselmo was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 31,206 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 16,667
  3. 3California1 in 50,000
  4. 4Arizona1 in —
  5. 5New York1 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. Anselmo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anselmo around the world

Where Anselmo 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.

  • France
    1914–1979
    #2,356
    in 1979
  • South Australia
    1961–1967
    #376
    in 1967

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Anselmo

People whose public names include Anselmo, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anselmo in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anselmo. Linked forms have their own page here.

AnselmAnselmiAnssiAnzelmAnselmusAnzelmas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anselmo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,784
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,247
Best rank ever
#1,157
1932
Peak year
1990
41 that year
First recorded
1907
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,748
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Anselmo

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

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Names with a curve like Anselmo

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anselmo, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Anselmo

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

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