User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 450: Alone in all the World, Review./@comment-5268982-20150901161817/@comment-5268982-20150902201839

Yes, my thoughts exactly. Besides if he was someone unimportant I doubt we would get a deliberate mention of his name so often. It would suffice for Zeref to say "it's the same curse as mine" instead of saying the name Anksheram all the time.