Annabelle

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Annabelle was given to 891 girls in 2025, #343 among girls’ names; 67,553 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 53,400 Americans named Annabelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 10 and 19.

Babies named Annabelle each year, first recorded in 1880

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Annabelle or Annabella Names of the 2010s Names in California

Births of Annabelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Annabelle mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Annabelle is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “beautiful Anna” (etymology,).

A variant of Annabel, by folk etymology, “beautiful Anna”.

/ˈænəbɛl/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Annabelle (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Annabelle?

#343 among girls’ names, 2025

Annabelle fell from #92 in 2015 to #343 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.8 to 0.55 per 1,000.

4,363 babies in 2014, the peak

Annabelle peaked in 2014, when 4,363 girls were given it, #57 among girls’ names. The 891 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.

Annabelle by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2025	891	#343	0.55
2024	897	#348	0.55
2023	917	#340	0.57
2022	997	#322	0.61
2021	1,147	#275	0.70
2020	1,322	#220	0.82
2019	1,700	#170	1.0
2018	1,989	#142	1.2
2017	2,625	#118	1.5
2016	3,001	#104	1.7

Every recorded year (146)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2015	3,283	#92	1.8
2014	4,363	#57	2.4
2013	3,560	#81	2.0
2012	3,058	#99	1.7
2011	2,732	#111	1.6
2010	2,640	#117	1.5
2009	2,057	#156	1.1
2008	1,813	#188	1.0
2007	1,731	#196	0.90
2006	1,667	#207	0.88
2005	1,405	#239	0.76
2004	1,067	#300	0.58
2003	1,063	#292	0.58
2002	917	#331	0.51
2001	862	#349	0.48
2000	597	#464	0.33
1999	521	#499	0.29
1998	359	#641	0.20
1997	241	#848	0.14
1996	211	#925	0.12
1995	194	#967	0.11
1994	129	#1,310	0.07
1993	103	#1,517	0.06
1992	106	#1,483	0.06
1991	80	#1,773	0.04
1990	73	#1,902	0.04
1989	88	#1,585	0.05
1988	61	#1,965	0.03
1987	50	#2,155	0.03
1986	52	#2,052	0.03
1985	53	#2,021	0.03
1984	63	#1,728	0.04
1983	50	#2,023	0.03
1982	51	#2,024	0.03
1981	55	#1,937	0.03
1980	56	#1,905	0.03
1979	50	#2,020	0.03
1978	37	#2,392	0.02
1977	55	#1,834	0.04
1976	73	#1,433	0.05
1975	46	#1,936	0.03
1974	50	#1,775	0.03
1973	64	#1,479	0.04
1972	53	#1,676	0.03
1971	58	#1,613	0.03
1970	75	#1,389	0.04
1969	83	#1,227	0.05
1968	45	#1,750	0.03
1967	55	#1,507	0.03
1966	65	#1,352	0.04
1965	65	#1,367	0.04
1964	63	#1,419	0.03
1963	49	#1,622	0.03
1962	57	#1,476	0.03
1961	70	#1,326	0.03
1960	64	#1,373	0.03
1959	65	#1,325	0.03
1958	66	#1,299	0.03
1957	55	#1,427	0.03
1956	52	#1,470	0.03
1955	26	#2,109	0.01
1954	52	#1,392	0.03
1953	46	#1,439	0.02
1952	57	#1,258	0.03
1951	68	#1,133	0.04
1950	100	#889	0.06
1949	111	#835	0.06
1948	116	#800	0.07
1947	112	#828	0.06
1946	115	#767	0.07
1945	105	#728	0.08
1944	134	#631	0.10
1943	135	#652	0.10
1942	153	#600	0.11
1941	156	#559	0.13
1940	188	#504	0.16
1939	194	#479	0.18
1938	218	#456	0.20
1937	175	#499	0.16
1936	215	#440	0.21
1935	248	#415	0.24
1934	282	#380	0.27
1933	263	#396	0.26
1932	356	#336	0.33
1931	452	#298	0.42
1930	462	#309	0.41
1929	480	#303	0.43
1928	566	#274	0.49
1927	567	#276	0.48
1926	629	#266	0.53
1925	574	#278	0.47
1924	673	#254	0.54
1923	615	#260	0.51
1922	584	#266	0.49
1921	631	#262	0.51
1920	571	#273	0.48
1919	472	#294	0.42
1918	484	#288	0.42
1917	500	#275	0.46
1916	448	#282	0.43
1915	427	#284	0.43
1914	315	#295	0.41
1913	240	#305	0.38
1912	219	#310	0.39
1911	164	#309	0.39
1910	121	#361	0.31
1909	108	#347	0.31
1908	113	#335	0.34
1907	94	#363	0.30
1906	78	#388	0.26
1905	90	#352	0.31
1904	76	#377	0.28
1903	60	#407	0.23
1902	65	#387	0.25
1901	54	#406	0.23
1900	73	#388	0.24
1899	45	#433	0.19
1898	77	#355	0.30
1897	28	#568	0.12
1896	44	#434	0.18
1895	42	#438	0.18
1894	33	#495	0.15
1893	31	#487	0.15
1892	41	#413	0.19
1891	33	#440	0.18
1890	40	#400	0.21
1889	29	#456	0.16
1888	19	#574	0.11
1887	22	#475	0.15
1886	21	#477	0.15
1885	27	#395	0.20
1884	14	#557	0.11
1883	11	#584	0.10
1882	22	#377	0.20
1881	13	#471	0.14
1880	9	#585	0.10

Download Annabelle’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Annabelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Annabelle has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named Annabelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Annabelle, and how old are they?

53,400 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 79% of the 67,553 Americans ever recorded as Annabelle. The median Annabelle alive today is 14 years old; half are between 10 and 19.

The 2020 Census counted 47,696 people named Annabelle (47,627 women and girls, 69 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 48,988 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-10941

90-99427

80-89697

70-79528

60-69529

50-59557

40-49501

30-391,070

20-298,600

10-19 (median)28,000

0-912,400

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	1,040
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	1,010
Generation X	1965-1980	861
Millennials	1981-1996	1,380
Generation Z	1997-2012	22,500
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	26,500

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 Annabelle born?

The states with the most babies named Annabelle are Texas, California and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among girls’ names in the state in 2025
State	Births 2025	Rank, girls	vs. national
Texas	65	#496	0.7×
California	64	#516	0.8×
Florida	48	#383	0.9×
Ohio	46	#242	1.3×
New York	42	#412	0.8×
Michigan	38	#235	1.2×
Virginia	34	#239	1.1×
North Carolina	32	#345	0.7×
Pennsylvania	31	#351	1.0×
Illinois	31	#338	1.0×

Where Annabelle is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Annabelle is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1910 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Indiana1.35×

Ohio1.27×

Michigan1.18×

Missouri1.15×

Colorado1.14×

Washington1.13×

Oregon1.13×

Kansas1.08×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

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 Annabelle 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 98,641 babies since 1880, Annabelle is the most given (68% of them). In 2025 it was given to 891 of their 1,191 babies (75%), again the most given.

Annabelle and the names spelled alike
Name	Since 1880	Births 2025	Peak year
Annabelle	67,553	891	2014
Annabella	15,007	163	2014
Anabelle	8,919	56	2014
Anabella	6,768	81	2014
Annebelle	173	under 5	2013
Annibelle	85	under 5	2011
Anniebelle	73	under 5	1915
Annabellee	63	under 5	2015

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 Annabelle

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Audree	3,727

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 Annabelle and names like it

Compare Annabelle and AnnabellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2010sAnnabelle peaked in 2014.
California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annabelle since 1910.
Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Annabelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Annabelle.
The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Annabelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
Names starting with AMost given first.

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