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Around the world, Anselme (Anselme , Ансельм , אנסלם ) is a common predominantly male, but scarcely female forename. The given name Anselme is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Madagascar, where it is quite a rare boy's name, Cameroon, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare predominantly boy's, but scarcely girly name. Measured by absolute frequency, this name is the most popular in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Ethiopia. Much less frequently, Anselme is the last name as well as the forename.
Anselme is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Comte Anselme Popinot , the Honoré de Balzac character, La Comédie humaine; Anselme , the theatrical character in the play "The Miser", My Duck and Anselmo , character in Don Quixote.