Annabella
Annabella was given to 163 girls in 2025, #1,352 among girls’ names; 15,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,700 Americans named Annabella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annabella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Annabella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Annabella is “a female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel and Annabelle.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Annabella?
#1,352 among girls’ names, 2025
Annabella fell from #395 in 2015 to #1,352 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.46 to 0.10 per 1,000.
1,280 babies in 2014, the peak
Annabella peaked in 2014, when 1,280 girls were given it, #256 among girls’ names. The 163 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 163 | #1,352 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 174 | #1,317 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 198 | #1,206 | 0.12 |
| 2022 | 200 | #1,209 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 254 | #1,006 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 322 | #847 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 451 | #645 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 518 | #590 | 0.30 |
| 2017 | 673 | #466 | 0.39 |
| 2016 | 753 | #431 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 826 | #395 | 0.46 |
| 2014 | 1,280 | #256 | 0.72 |
| 2013 | 1,172 | #273 | 0.67 |
| 2012 | 1,039 | #307 | 0.59 |
| 2011 | 967 | #327 | 0.55 |
| 2010 | 1,032 | #310 | 0.58 |
| 2009 | 674 | #460 | 0.37 |
| 2008 | 528 | #587 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 535 | #563 | 0.28 |
| 2006 | 523 | #561 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 403 | #689 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 368 | #725 | 0.20 |
| 2003 | 368 | #710 | 0.20 |
| 2002 | 347 | #715 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 225 | #965 | 0.12 |
| 2000 | 153 | #1,268 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,763 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 58 | #2,307 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 33 | #3,429 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,089 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,788 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,989 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,028 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 15 | #5,962 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,906 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,081 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,289 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,282 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,333 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,003 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,834 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,697 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,168 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,069 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,366 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,310 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,049 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,235 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,586 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,183 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,014 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 7 | #4,005 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,498 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 16 | #2,097 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,210 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,274 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,209 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,504 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,309 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,142 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,774 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,938 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,355 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,783 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,817 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,959 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,417 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,617 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,848 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,307 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,107 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,997 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annabella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annabella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annabella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annabella, and how old are they?
14,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 15,007 Americans ever recorded as Annabella. The median Annabella alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 12,034 people named Annabella (12,022 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,491 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 29 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 70 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 55 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 182 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,940 |
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 Annabella born?
The states with the most babies named Annabella are Florida, California and Texas, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 23 | #715 | 1.5× |
| California | 15 | #1,499 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,627 | 0.7× |
| New York | 14 | #1,034 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #951 | 1.0× |
| Arizona | 7 | #826 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,380 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,047 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,427 | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 5 | #753 | 0.8× |
Where Annabella is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annabella is most over-represented in Florida: since 1912 it was given 1.5 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 Annabella 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 99,097 babies since 1880, Annabella is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 163 of their 1,196 babies (14%), again the second 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 Annabella
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 Annabella and names like it
- Compare Annabella and AnnabelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnnabella peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annabella since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Annabella.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Annabella alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.