Annel
Annel was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,143 among girls’ names; 551 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Annel?
#15,143 among girls’ names, 2025
Annel fell from #7,654 in 2015 to #15,143 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.1 per million.
31 babies in 2004, the peak
Annel peaked in 2004, when 31 girls were given it, #4,393 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,143 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,228 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,567 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,734 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,888 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,654 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,042 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,595 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,093 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,538 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,136 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,513 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,537 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,393 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,914 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,863 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,587 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,903 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,858 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,144 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,021 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,542 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,077 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,458 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,428 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,733 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,186 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,068 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,861 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,319 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,392 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,162 | 5.2 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,483 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,440 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,247 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #6,918 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,352 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 9 | #6,815 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,441 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,841 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,909 | 6.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,349 | 3.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,813 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annel has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Annel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annel, and how old are they?
An estimated 540 Americans named Annel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 21 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 816 people named Annel (746 women and girls, 70 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Annel rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Annel born?
The states with the most babies named Annel are California, Texas and New York, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 224 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 32 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Annel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annel is most over-represented in California: since 1964 it was given 3.0 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 Annel 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 3,625 babies since 1880, Annel is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 34 babies (15%), again the third 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 Annel
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 Annel and names like it
- Compare Annel and AnelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAnnel peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annel since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Annel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Annel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.