Anabell
Anabell was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 1,429 Americans have been recorded with it between 1922 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Anabell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anabell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anabell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,450, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
95 babies in 2013, the peak
Anabell peaked in 2013, when 95 girls were given it, #2,032 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #15,450 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,515 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,335 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,596 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,600 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,373 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,196 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,360 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,537 | 17.5 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,922 | 21.3 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 86 | #2,196 | 48.1 |
| 2013 | 95 | #2,032 | 54.1 |
| 2012 | 80 | #2,338 | 45.4 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,259 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,363 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 74 | #2,533 | 40.3 |
| 2008 | 71 | #2,611 | 37.5 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,486 | 24.4 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,508 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,264 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,498 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,220 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,655 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,083 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,655 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,972 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,372 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,183 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,536 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,067 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,635 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,518 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,088 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,667 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,523 | 11.1 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,857 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,134 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,019 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,195 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,089 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 11 | #5,920 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,290 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,569 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,266 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,722 | 12.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,814 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,665 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,062 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,126 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,789 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,589 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,327 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,022 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,420 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,728 | 5.9 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,058 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 8 | #4,874 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,838 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,012 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 6 | #5,872 | 3.1 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,045 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anabell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anabell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 61 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anabell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anabell, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,429 Americans ever recorded as Anabell. The median Anabell alive today is 18 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,841 people named Anabell (1,836 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,367 born in the U.S. The Census count is 35% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Anabell rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 729 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 338 |
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 Anabell born?
The states with the most babies named Anabell are California, Texas and Florida, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 386 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 167 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Florida | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Arizona | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Anabell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anabell is most over-represented in California: since 1922 it was given 2.0 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 Anabell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Anabell?
Anabell is a less common spelling of Annabel: SSA has recorded 1,429 Anabell and 14,974 Annabel since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 32,943 babies since 1880, Anabell is the fourth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 145 babies recorded by SSA was a Anabell (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Anabell
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 Anabell and names like it
- Compare Anabell and AnnabelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnabell peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anabell since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Anabell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anabell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.