Anabella
Anabella was given to 81 girls in 2025, #2,258 among girls’ names; 6,768 Americans have been recorded with it since 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,710 Americans named Anabella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 11 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anabella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anabella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anabella is “a female given name.”
Rare spelling variant of Annabella, the Latinate form of Annabel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anabella?
#2,258 among girls’ names, 2025
Anabella fell from #863 in 2015 to #2,258 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.18 to 0.05 per 1,000.
585 babies in 2014, the peak
Anabella peaked in 2014, when 585 girls were given it, #529 among girls’ names. The 81 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81 | #2,258 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 81 | #2,284 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 108 | #1,851 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 103 | #1,931 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,731 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 155 | #1,412 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 175 | #1,308 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 225 | #1,099 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 245 | #1,051 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 292 | #938 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 323 | #863 | 0.18 |
| 2014 | 585 | #529 | 0.33 |
| 2013 | 515 | #564 | 0.29 |
| 2012 | 513 | #573 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 477 | #601 | 0.27 |
| 2010 | 497 | #592 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 363 | #779 | 0.20 |
| 2008 | 297 | #922 | 0.16 |
| 2007 | 262 | #1,012 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 225 | #1,112 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 195 | #1,181 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 199 | #1,144 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 170 | #1,234 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 133 | #1,431 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,975 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,186 | 0.04 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,049 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,917 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,902 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,176 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,272 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,121 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,212 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,089 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,603 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,901 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #9,717 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,386 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,054 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,336 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,468 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,407 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anabella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anabella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anabella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anabella, and how old are they?
6,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,768 Americans ever recorded as Anabella. The median Anabella alive today is 14 years old; half are between 11 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 6,507 people named Anabella (6,503 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 104 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,990 |
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 Anabella born?
The states with the most babies named Anabella are Florida, Texas and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 25 | #676 | 2.9× |
| Texas | 11 | #1,917 | 1.1× |
| California | 9 | #2,110 | 1.4× |
Where Anabella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anabella is most over-represented in Florida: since 1960 it was given 2.9 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 Anabella 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 98,776 babies since 1880, Anabella is the fourth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 81 of their 1,196 babies (6.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Anabella
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 Anabella and names like it
- Compare Anabella and AnnabelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnabella peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anabella since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Anabella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anabella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.