Anshel
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ənzhɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anshel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 109Kas אנשל(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.5M
- RORomania≈1 in 25Kas אנשל
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anshel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 14 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 named אנשל, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אנשל in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anshel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Anshel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Jewish (Yiddish): variant of ANTSHEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Asher Anshel Jungreisb. 1806HUHungarian rabbi (1806–1873)
- Anshel Schorrb. 1871USAmerican playwright (1871-1942)
- M. A. Tenenblattb. 1888ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli journalist and scholar (1888-1982)
- Anshel Brusilowb. 1928USAmerican violinist, conductor, and music educator at the collegiate level (1928–2018)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 7 | #22,158 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Anshel?
- In the etymology graph, Anselmo and Anselm are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Anshel?
- A machine transcription gives /ənzhɛl/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Anshel a male or female name?
- Anshel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Anshel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 838 people named אנשל in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Anshel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Anshel is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 2.5 million people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Anshel?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 7 people named Anshel, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
- How common is Anshel compared with other names?
- In Romania, Anshel is the 911th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Anshel?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anshelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anshel” — the 911th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.