Ansley Family History
Ansley Name Meaning
English:: habitational name from such places as Ansley in Warwickshire or Annesley in Nottinghamshire. The former is named with Old English ānsetl ‘hermitage’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’; the latter with an Old English personal name An (‘the solitary one’) + lēah. In North America the surname may in some cases also be an altered form of Scottish Ainslie . Compare Ainsley . variant of Anslow .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022