Anner — girls' name
1,037 babies named Anner in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Anner was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Anner in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Anner
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,037 babies named Anner between 1880 and 1964, spanning 85 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Anner currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1964. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Anner performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 220 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Anner shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 79 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Anner in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Anner in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,037 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Anner at a glance
Last recorded 1964Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Anner popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1964–1880
- Peak year (1920)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 85 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1964.
1,037 total births across 85 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 32 births in a single year.
Anner popularity over time — boys
48 total births recorded since 2007 (Anner as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Anner accounts for 4% of total recorded use across both genders.
Anner by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 220 births that decade — 21% of Anner's all-time total
Anner decade highlights
- Peak decade 220 births
- Runner-up 191 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Anner's strongest decade
220 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Anner by state
Where Anner concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Mississippi | | 79 | 7.6% |
| #2 | North Carolina | | 29 | 2.8% |
| #3 | Louisiana | | 11 | 1.1% |
| #4 | South Carolina | | 6 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.5% |
79 of 1,037 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Mississippi 7.6% of nationwide
- North Carolina 2.8% of nationwide
- Louisiana 1.1% of nationwide
- South Carolina 0.6% of nationwide
- Alabama 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Mississippi accounts for 7.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–1964 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.