Anselme
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic ans 'god' + helm 'helmet, protection'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɑ̃sɛlm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anselme is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- GPGuadeloupe≈1 in 6.1K
- MGMadagascar≈1 in 30K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guadeloupe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germanic ans 'god' + helm 'helmet, protection'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anselme 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3.8K | Anselme | 214 |
| MG Madagascar | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | — | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Anselme | 16 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Anselme | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 2 | — | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 226 | 1 in 937K | 226 | — | — |
| GP Guadeloupe | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 5 | — | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Anselme is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Anselm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Origine germanique, signifie « protégé du dieu Ans ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Latin, vocative singular of Anselmus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Antoine Anselmeb. 1652FRFrench priest
- Rose Anselmeb. 1740FRDutch actor and singer
- Baptiste cadetb. 1765FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor
- François Anselmeb. 1809FRFrench soldier and officer (1809–1867)
- Daniel Anselmeb. 1927FRFrench poet, writer, journalist and translator
- Bernard Anselmeb. 1945BEBelgian politician
- Bruno Anselmeb. 1958FRFrench professor of natural sciences
- Karine Anselmeb. 1964FRresearcher
- Éric Anselmeb. 1978FRFrench rugby league footballer and coach
- Wedson Anselmeb. 1986HTHaitian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 226 | #33,229 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 214 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 does the name Anselme mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic ans 'god' + helm 'helmet, protection'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Anselme?
- In the etymology graph, Anselmi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Anselme?
- A machine transcription gives /ɑ̃sɛlm/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Anselme have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Anselme in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anselme.
- How common is the name Anselme?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 226 people named Anselme, about 1 in 937 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Anselme?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anselmeThe 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, “Anselme”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.