Annah
Annah was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,864 among girls’ names; 1,942 Americans have been recorded with it since 1888 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,780 Americans named Annah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Annah?
#6,864 among girls’ names, 2025
Annah fell from #3,923 in 2015 to #6,864 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 10.0 per million.
68 babies in 2001, the peak
Annah peaked in 2001, when 68 girls were given it, #2,329 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,864 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,418 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 16 | #6,955 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,180 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,765 | 12.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,953 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,625 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,466 | 13.5 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,819 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,260 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,923 | 21.3 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,184 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,908 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,788 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,667 | 23.9 |
| 2010 | 39 | #3,894 | 21.9 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,274 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,428 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,293 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,917 | 31.0 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,967 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 52 | #2,995 | 28.3 |
| 2003 | 52 | #2,922 | 28.5 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,496 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,329 | 37.8 |
| 2000 | 60 | #2,506 | 33.0 |
| 1999 | 52 | #2,675 | 29.3 |
| 1998 | 62 | #2,280 | 35.1 |
| 1997 | 49 | #2,592 | 28.1 |
| 1996 | 53 | #2,422 | 30.2 |
| 1995 | 39 | #2,974 | 22.2 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,463 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,824 | 23.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | #2,869 | 22.2 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,443 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,897 | 20.5 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,164 | 17.9 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,593 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 39 | #2,574 | 22.4 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,459 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,013 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,617 | 13.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #3,958 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,786 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,013 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,618 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,212 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,086 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,370 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,633 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,142 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,835 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,698 | 4.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,384 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,591 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,279 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,986 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,323 | 2.9 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,877 | 5.2 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,275 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,210 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,247 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,505 | 6.6 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,598 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,752 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,583 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,368 | 7.4 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,393 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,473 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,686 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,349 | 7.5 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,846 | 4.3 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,108 | 5.5 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,669 | 10.5 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,225 | 14.4 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,611 | 21.5 |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,360 | 26.9 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,452 | 23.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,346 | 27.0 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,290 | 28.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 80 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annah, and how old are they?
1,780 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,942 Americans ever recorded as Annah. The median Annah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,834 people named Annah (1,831 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,690 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 93 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 531 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 818 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 318 |
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).
How common is the spelling Annah?
Annah is a less common spelling of Anna: SSA has recorded 1,942 Annah and 917,615 Anna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,790,814 babies since 1880, Annah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 8,037 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Annah
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 Annah and names like it
- Compare Annah and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnnah peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annah since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Annah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Annah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.