Given name & surname
Tansley
“twig, branch”
Tansley is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tansley goes back to Old English tān, meaning “twig, branch.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tansley through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 0 boys · 10 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,019 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,019 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 302 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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