Given name & surname
Ance
“a woman graced with God's favor”
Ance is a variant of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ance is a variant of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ance through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 54
- 54 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1944
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1952. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1944.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
If you love Ance, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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“manliness” · “virility”
>99% boys
Lawayne
>99% boys
Arvill
>99% boys
Eusebio
“one who is devout”
>99% boys
Sibling ideas
Names that share Ance’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.
A sister for Ance