Anselma
"Anselma" is a song written by César Suedan and Guadalupe Trigo, produced by T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin, and performed by American band Los Lobos for their EP ...And a Time to Dance in 1983. The song earned the first Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards.
- Spanish
- Italian
- German
Meaning & Origin of Anselma
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
"Anselma" is a song written by César Suedan and Guadalupe Trigo, produced by T-Bone Burnett and Steve Berlin, and performed by American band Los Lobos for their EP ...And a Time to Dance in 1983. The song earned the first Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Performance at the 26th Grammy Awards.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
- Italian
- German
The Story of Anselma
Anselma first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1916, with 9 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1924: 14 births, good for #2,514 nationwide. About 37% of every Anselma on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Anselma last appeared in the published SSA data in 1999, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 189 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Anselma
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About the name Anselma
Anselma is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1916 and has accumulated 189 births in the dataset. Anselma's peak popularity came in 1924 when it ranked #2,514. Use the chart and map above to compare Anselma's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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