Ancil
Ancil is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 950th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192035 births
- Best rank
- #950in 1901
- Since 1888
- 1,099people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,099 boys have been named Ancil in the United States since 1888, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 35 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 35 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Ancil | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 10 | |
| 1900s | 16 | |
| 1910s | 166 | |
| 1920s | 252 | |
| 1930s | 215 | |
| 1940s | 174 | |
| 1950s | 109 | |
| 1960s | 63 | |
| 1970s | 36 | |
| 1980s | 28 | |
| 1990s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 10 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Ancil was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Ancil
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maynardpeak 1922
- Arnoldpeak 1924
- Merlepeak 1925
- Vernonpeak 1920
- Elroypeak 1922
- Weldonpeak 1920
- Delmerpeak 1924
- Arvilpeak 1924
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.