Annabel
Annabel was given to 91 girls in 2025, #2,065 among girls’ names; 14,974 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,700 Americans named Annabel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annabel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Annabel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Annabel is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the senses “lovable” (amabilis) and “beautiful Anna” (belle,).
Originally a mishearing or misreading of Latin amabilis (“lovable”) (= Amabel, Mabel), used since the 12th century and by folk etymology interpreted as Anna + belle, “beautiful Anna”.
/ˈænəbɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Annabel?
#2,065 among girls’ names, 2025
Annabel fell from #621 in 2015 to #2,065 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.26 to 0.06 per 1,000.
716 babies in 2014, the peak
Annabel peaked in 2014, when 716 girls were given it, #447 among girls’ names. The 91 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91 | #2,065 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,599 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 112 | #1,805 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 135 | #1,574 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 169 | #1,327 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 188 | #1,215 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 220 | #1,110 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 279 | #951 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 348 | #789 | 0.20 |
| 2016 | 410 | #701 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 463 | #621 | 0.26 |
| 2014 | 716 | #447 | 0.40 |
| 2013 | 632 | #481 | 0.36 |
| 2012 | 584 | #519 | 0.33 |
| 2011 | 538 | #539 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 467 | #629 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 405 | #711 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 361 | #799 | 0.19 |
| 2007 | 361 | #796 | 0.19 |
| 2006 | 318 | #844 | 0.17 |
| 2005 | 338 | #776 | 0.18 |
| 2004 | 289 | #850 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 281 | #859 | 0.15 |
| 2002 | 285 | #812 | 0.16 |
| 2001 | 266 | #856 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 227 | #940 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 195 | #1,042 | 0.11 |
| 1998 | 182 | #1,069 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 149 | #1,204 | 0.09 |
| 1996 | 128 | #1,327 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,283 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,413 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,483 | 0.06 |
| 1992 | 100 | #1,546 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,481 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 122 | #1,322 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,370 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 91 | #1,491 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,737 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,562 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 59 | #1,813 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,047 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,290 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 56 | #1,914 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 60 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,274 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 50 | #1,938 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,029 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 53 | #1,776 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,964 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 37 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,409 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 31 | #2,356 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,110 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,579 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,138 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,300 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,849 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 49 | #1,595 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 40 | #1,868 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,981 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 34 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,014 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,020 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,053 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 26 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,452 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,706 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 37 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 24 | #2,018 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,723 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,917 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,010 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,793 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,811 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,202 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 22 | #1,834 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,356 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 39 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 29 | #1,383 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,379 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 41 | #1,087 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 64 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 61 | #877 | 0.06 |
| 1930 | 62 | #926 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 73 | #828 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 76 | #825 | 0.07 |
| 1927 | 93 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 113 | #686 | 0.10 |
| 1925 | 113 | #694 | 0.09 |
| 1924 | 123 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1923 | 118 | #683 | 0.10 |
| 1922 | 118 | #671 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 130 | #649 | 0.11 |
| 1920 | 130 | #628 | 0.11 |
| 1919 | 124 | #631 | 0.11 |
| 1918 | 129 | #623 | 0.11 |
| 1917 | 121 | #621 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 129 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1915 | 112 | #622 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 87 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1913 | 63 | #651 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 61 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1911 | 51 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1910 | 45 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1909 | 28 | #761 | 0.08 |
| 1908 | 34 | #665 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 34 | #637 | 0.11 |
| 1906 | 16 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1905 | 27 | #684 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 19 | #837 | 0.07 |
| 1903 | 26 | #657 | 0.10 |
| 1902 | 22 | #737 | 0.08 |
| 1901 | 32 | #538 | 0.13 |
| 1900 | 37 | #568 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 24 | #630 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 30 | #587 | 0.12 |
| 1897 | 16 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 33 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1895 | 15 | #818 | 0.06 |
| 1894 | 16 | #749 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 26 | #547 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 22 | #591 | 0.10 |
| 1891 | 16 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1890 | 19 | #603 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 24 | #516 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 17 | #613 | 0.10 |
| 1887 | 13 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 15 | #573 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 10 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 11 | #642 | 0.09 |
| 1883 | 8 | #698 | 0.07 |
| 1882 | 10 | #596 | 0.09 |
| 1881 | 6 | #743 | 0.07 |
| 1880 | 13 | #467 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annabel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annabel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annabel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annabel, and how old are they?
11,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 78% of the 14,974 Americans ever recorded as Annabel. The median Annabel alive today is 17 years old; half are between 12 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 11,292 people named Annabel (11,276 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,161 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 162 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 430 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 605 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,870 |
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 Annabel born?
The states with the most babies named Annabel are California, New York and Illinois, with 84% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,754 | 1.2× |
| New York | 8 | #1,539 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,126 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #3,333 | 1.2× |
Where Annabel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annabel is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.2 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 Annabel 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, Annabel is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 91 of their 145 babies (63%), again the 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 Annabel
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 Annabel and names like it
- Compare Annabel and AnabelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnnabel peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annabel since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Annabel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Annabel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Annabel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.