Anabel
Anabel was given to 33 girls in 2025, #4,269 among girls’ names; 9,815 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,760 Americans named Anabel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 16 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anabel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anabel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anabel is “a female given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Annabel.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anabel?
#4,269 among girls’ names, 2025
Anabel fell from #1,411 in 2015 to #4,269 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 91.9 to 20.5 per million.
297 babies in 2014, the peak
Anabel peaked in 2014, when 297 girls were given it, #911 among girls’ names. The 33 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33 | #4,269 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,579 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,875 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,315 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 59 | #2,850 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 61 | #2,717 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,563 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,925 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 120 | #1,752 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 143 | #1,560 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (138)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 164 | #1,411 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 297 | #911 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 285 | #899 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 262 | #967 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 254 | #996 | 0.14 |
| 2010 | 270 | #950 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 232 | #1,101 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 279 | #961 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 285 | #953 | 0.15 |
| 2006 | 247 | #1,036 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,037 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 248 | #965 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 186 | #1,159 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 219 | #1,001 | 0.12 |
| 2001 | 180 | #1,157 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 183 | #1,111 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 168 | #1,158 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 160 | #1,171 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 164 | #1,137 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 157 | #1,153 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 143 | #1,197 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 164 | #1,094 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 165 | #1,093 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 189 | #997 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 284 | #731 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 277 | #746 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 239 | #793 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 173 | #960 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 115 | #1,235 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 128 | #1,129 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 114 | #1,212 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 117 | #1,157 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 124 | #1,103 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 105 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 132 | #1,068 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 162 | #921 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 88 | #1,395 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 93 | #1,301 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,415 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,464 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 71 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,857 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,856 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,907 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,162 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,135 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,214 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 43 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,948 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,310 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,106 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,666 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,487 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,730 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,814 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,849 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,431 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,624 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,772 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,977 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,141 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,215 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,742 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,448 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,113 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 16 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 15 | #2,136 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 21 | #1,689 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,878 | 0.02 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,439 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,900 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,674 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,021 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 43 | #1,206 | 0.03 |
| 1923 | 33 | #1,389 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 34 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,479 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 24 | #1,554 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 37 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,319 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 18 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,481 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,666 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,269 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,613 | 0.02 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 15 | #967 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 9 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,171 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,446 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,223 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,439 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1897 | 7 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,307 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 13 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1893 | 6 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 8 | #1,088 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,100 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,029 | 0.04 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,289 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 13 | #636 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 6 | #997 | 0.04 |
| 1885 | 7 | #847 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1883 | 7 | #755 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 5 | #914 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anabel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anabel has been given almost only to girls: 35 boys in 138 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anabel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anabel, and how old are they?
8,760 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 9,815 Americans ever recorded as Anabel. The median Anabel alive today is 26 years old; half are between 16 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 15,166 people named Anabel (15,117 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,619 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 45 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 239 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 912 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,590 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,530 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anabel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,109 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,705 | 1.0× |
Where Anabel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anabel is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anabel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 32,943 babies since 1880, Anabel is the second most given (30% of them). In 2025 it was given to 33 of their 145 babies (23%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anabel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anabel and names like it
- Compare Anabel and AnnabelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnabel peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anabel since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Anabel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anabel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.