Anella
Anella was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,861 among girls’ names; 441 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Anella?
#6,861 among girls’ names, 2025
Anella rose from #10,960 in 2015 to #6,861 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 10.0 per million.
27 babies in 2012, the peak
Anella peaked in 2012, when 27 girls were given it, #5,119 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,861 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,628 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,182 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,320 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,971 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,178 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,378 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,797 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,865 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,272 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9 | #10,960 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,586 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,096 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,119 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,448 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,276 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,431 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,527 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,058 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,510 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,917 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,623 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,641 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,069 | 2.6 |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,718 | 4.1 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,801 | 2.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,583 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,852 | 3.3 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,267 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,264 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,358 | 3.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,269 | 4.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,438 | 6.7 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,911 | 5.6 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,447 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,995 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,137 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,347 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,846 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,037 | 8.6 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,270 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,303 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anella, and how old are they?
An estimated 363 Americans named Anella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 406 people named Anella (406 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 260 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Anella?
Anella is a less common spelling of Anela: SSA has recorded 441 Anella and 1,793 Anela since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,159 babies since 1880, Anella is the eighth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 694 babies (2.3%), the seventh 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 Anella
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 Anella and names like it
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