The Ancel surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 303 people carried this name — #61,855 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 1,882 people named Ancel.
22 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 73 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
34 people named Ancel live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Ancel.
- Amy 2,040 · U.S. census
- Amyot 286 · U.S. census
- Anani 155 · U.S. census
- Anastasi 1,343 · U.S. census
- Anastasio 1,609 · U.S. census
- Anaya 17,405 · U.S. census
- Ancelet 356 · U.S. census
- Ancona 1,481 · U.S. census
- Andersen 33,508 · U.S. census
- Anderson 762,394 · U.S. census
- Andersson 977 · U.S. census
- Andonian 426 · U.S. census
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