Anson
3
Babies in 2024
-57%
10-year change
2023
Peak · 13
-77%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Anson
Anson has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 3 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 57% on a decade earlier.
Anson reached its peak in 2023, when 13 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #1,799 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 23% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 151 boys have been officially registered with the name Anson in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 62 boys were registered with the name, starting from 7 in 2014 and ending at 3 in 2024.