Anette
Anette was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,405 among girls’ names; 2,728 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Anette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anette mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Anette is “a female given name”
From Swedish Anette.
/ˈɑnetːe/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anette?
#8,405 among girls’ names, 2025
Anette fell from #6,747 in 2015 to #8,405 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 7.5 per million.
113 babies in 2003, the peak
Anette peaked in 2003, when 113 girls were given it, #1,686 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,405 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,187 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,463 | 19.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,736 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,761 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,013 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,814 | 12.5 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,540 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,674 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,164 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (99)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,747 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 30 | #4,666 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,904 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,607 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,921 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,472 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,255 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,927 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,648 | 35.9 |
| 2006 | 79 | #2,378 | 41.6 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,074 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 96 | #1,943 | 52.3 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,686 | 61.8 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,682 | 60.7 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,259 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,120 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,317 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 21 | #4,966 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,831 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,062 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,023 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,722 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,262 | 13.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,061 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,334 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,842 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,891 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,314 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,076 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,467 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,459 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,487 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,688 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,420 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,743 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,723 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,446 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,782 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,179 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,097 | 15.7 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,814 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,217 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,831 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,455 | 19.1 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,002 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,395 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,136 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 47 | #1,709 | 28.7 |
| 1967 | 43 | #1,751 | 26.0 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,532 | 31.3 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,421 | 34.0 |
| 1964 | 54 | #1,548 | 28.5 |
| 1963 | 50 | #1,597 | 25.9 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,626 | 24.4 |
| 1961 | 45 | #1,696 | 22.3 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,466 | 27.7 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,643 | 21.7 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,629 | 21.4 |
| 1957 | 33 | #1,903 | 16.1 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,829 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 11 | #3,580 | 5.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,725 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 23 | #2,173 | 12.2 |
| 1952 | 11 | #3,374 | 5.9 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,489 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,433 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,518 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,834 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,063 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,981 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,040 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,695 | 5.3 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,813 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,453 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,970 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,439 | 6.4 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,743 | 9.4 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,233 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,167 | 7.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,235 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,873 | 4.2 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,672 | 6.7 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,006 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,833 | 6.2 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,108 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,936 | 5.7 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,146 | 8.1 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,995 | 9.0 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,964 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Anette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 99 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Anette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anette, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,728 Americans ever recorded as Anette. The median Anette alive today is 29 years old; half are between 20 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 3,292 people named Anette (3,291 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,416 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above 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 | 27 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 417 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 479 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 305 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 955 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 283 |
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 Anette born?
The states with the most babies named Anette are California, Texas and New York, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 501 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 381 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 100 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 29 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Anette is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anette is most over-represented in Texas: since 1911 it was given 1.7 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 Anette 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 183,178 babies since 1880, Anette is the third most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 181 babies (6.6%), the second 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 Anette
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Tamyra | 2,274 |
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 Anette and names like it
- Compare Anette and AnnetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnette peaked in 2003.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anette since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Anette: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Anette.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Anette alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.