Annie
Annie was given to 1,690 girls in 2025, #182 among girls’ names; 362,180 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 109,000 Americans named Annie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (30% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 27 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Annie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Annie is “a diminutive of the female given name Ann. Also, a popular given name in the 19th century.”
/ˈæni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Annie?
#182 among girls’ names, 2025
Annie rose from #323 in 2015 to #182 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.57 to 1.1 per 1,000.
7,513 babies in 1922, the peak
Annie peaked in 1922, when 7,513 babies were given it (7,476 girls, #30 among girls’ names). The 1,690 births of 2025 are 22% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,690 | #182 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 1,570 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,484 | #202 | 0.92 |
| 2022 | 1,417 | #205 | 0.86 |
| 2021 | 1,307 | #230 | 0.80 |
| 2020 | 1,103 | #289 | 0.68 |
| 2019 | 1,108 | #298 | 0.66 |
| 2018 | 1,091 | #307 | 0.64 |
| 2017 | 1,092 | #298 | 0.63 |
| 2016 | 1,131 | #286 | 0.64 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,010 | #323 | 0.57 |
| 2014 | 1,058 | #313 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 905 | #353 | 0.52 |
| 2012 | 835 | #375 | 0.47 |
| 2011 | 824 | #384 | 0.47 |
| 2010 | 813 | #392 | 0.46 |
| 2009 | 858 | #380 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 824 | #392 | 0.44 |
| 2007 | 784 | #419 | 0.41 |
| 2006 | 813 | #394 | 0.43 |
| 2005 | 839 | #376 | 0.45 |
| 2004 | 817 | #382 | 0.44 |
| 2003 | 924 | #337 | 0.51 |
| 2002 | 977 | #313 | 0.54 |
| 2001 | 983 | #317 | 0.55 |
| 2000 | 1,042 | #306 | 0.57 |
| 1999 | 986 | #313 | 0.56 |
| 1998 | 921 | #324 | 0.52 |
| 1997 | 927 | #317 | 0.53 |
| 1996 | 999 | #289 | 0.57 |
| 1995 | 928 | #297 | 0.53 |
| 1994 | 803 | #332 | 0.45 |
| 1993 | 762 | #339 | 0.42 |
| 1992 | 730 | #353 | 0.40 |
| 1991 | 736 | #351 | 0.39 |
| 1990 | 822 | #333 | 0.43 |
| 1989 | 742 | #344 | 0.40 |
| 1988 | 721 | #341 | 0.40 |
| 1987 | 659 | #360 | 0.38 |
| 1986 | 719 | #336 | 0.42 |
| 1985 | 831 | #296 | 0.48 |
| 1984 | 794 | #300 | 0.47 |
| 1983 | 806 | #292 | 0.48 |
| 1982 | 1,016 | #246 | 0.60 |
| 1981 | 973 | #253 | 0.58 |
| 1980 | 1,001 | #258 | 0.60 |
| 1979 | 910 | #269 | 0.57 |
| 1978 | 662 | #332 | 0.43 |
| 1977 | 541 | #388 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 464 | #430 | 0.32 |
| 1975 | 487 | #413 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 464 | #421 | 0.32 |
| 1973 | 464 | #421 | 0.32 |
| 1972 | 438 | #438 | 0.29 |
| 1971 | 489 | #428 | 0.29 |
| 1970 | 499 | #441 | 0.29 |
| 1969 | 571 | #397 | 0.34 |
| 1968 | 611 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1967 | 690 | #334 | 0.42 |
| 1966 | 736 | #325 | 0.43 |
| 1965 | 815 | #316 | 0.46 |
| 1964 | 1,034 | #282 | 0.55 |
| 1963 | 1,120 | #264 | 0.58 |
| 1962 | 1,299 | #245 | 0.66 |
| 1961 | 1,298 | #241 | 0.64 |
| 1960 | 1,478 | #221 | 0.73 |
| 1959 | 1,588 | #208 | 0.78 |
| 1958 | 1,723 | #196 | 0.86 |
| 1957 | 1,832 | #193 | 0.90 |
| 1956 | 2,116 | #171 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 2,220 | #160 | 1.1 |
| 1954 | 2,409 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1953 | 2,563 | #143 | 1.4 |
| 1952 | 2,838 | #127 | 1.5 |
| 1951 | 3,062 | #113 | 1.7 |
| 1950 | 3,331 | #106 | 1.9 |
| 1949 | 3,453 | #103 | 2.0 |
| 1948 | 3,721 | #97 | 2.2 |
| 1947 | 3,758 | #103 | 2.1 |
| 1946 | 3,651 | #97 | 2.3 |
| 1945 | 3,741 | #69 | 2.9 |
| 1944 | 3,738 | #71 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 4,070 | #69 | 2.9 |
| 1942 | 4,293 | #62 | 3.2 |
| 1941 | 4,073 | #59 | 3.4 |
| 1940 | 4,216 | #56 | 3.7 |
| 1939 | 4,155 | #54 | 3.8 |
| 1938 | 4,562 | #47 | 4.1 |
| 1937 | 4,479 | #46 | 4.2 |
| 1936 | 4,529 | #45 | 4.4 |
| 1935 | 4,849 | #38 | 4.6 |
| 1934 | 5,018 | #38 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 5,123 | #37 | 5.1 |
| 1932 | 5,385 | #41 | 5.0 |
| 1931 | 5,090 | #41 | 4.8 |
| 1930 | 5,756 | #40 | 5.1 |
| 1929 | 5,955 | #37 | 5.3 |
| 1928 | 6,329 | #37 | 5.5 |
| 1927 | 6,562 | #36 | 5.5 |
| 1926 | 6,877 | #34 | 5.8 |
| 1925 | 7,350 | #32 | 6.0 |
| 1924 | 7,347 | #32 | 5.9 |
| 1923 | 7,095 | #34 | 5.9 |
| 1922 | 7,476 | #30 | 6.2 |
| 1921 | 7,209 | #36 | 5.8 |
| 1920 | 7,268 | #35 | 6.1 |
| 1919 | 7,146 | #35 | 6.3 |
| 1918 | 6,743 | #36 | 5.8 |
| 1917 | 6,404 | #35 | 5.9 |
| 1916 | 6,105 | #36 | 5.8 |
| 1915 | 5,936 | #36 | 6.0 |
| 1914 | 4,800 | #33 | 6.3 |
| 1913 | 4,267 | #30 | 6.8 |
| 1912 | 4,083 | #27 | 7.3 |
| 1911 | 3,298 | #24 | 7.9 |
| 1910 | 3,519 | #19 | 8.9 |
| 1909 | 2,904 | #22 | 8.4 |
| 1908 | 2,820 | #21 | 8.4 |
| 1907 | 2,891 | #19 | 9.1 |
| 1906 | 2,774 | #18 | 9.4 |
| 1905 | 2,793 | #17 | 9.6 |
| 1904 | 2,631 | #17 | 9.6 |
| 1903 | 2,551 | #17 | 9.7 |
| 1902 | 2,664 | #16 | 10.1 |
| 1901 | 2,396 | #16 | 10.0 |
| 1900 | 3,324 | #11 | 11.1 |
| 1899 | 2,289 | #18 | 9.8 |
| 1898 | 2,470 | #18 | 9.5 |
| 1897 | 2,307 | #20 | 9.9 |
| 1896 | 2,358 | #19 | 9.9 |
| 1895 | 2,390 | #19 | 10.2 |
| 1894 | 2,393 | #18 | 10.7 |
| 1893 | 2,251 | #17 | 10.6 |
| 1892 | 2,348 | #15 | 11.1 |
| 1891 | 2,096 | #13 | 11.3 |
| 1890 | 2,220 | #15 | 11.7 |
| 1889 | 2,123 | #13 | 11.9 |
| 1888 | 2,188 | #14 | 12.2 |
| 1887 | 1,844 | #12 | 12.6 |
| 1886 | 1,765 | #13 | 12.2 |
| 1885 | 1,703 | #10 | 12.8 |
| 1884 | 1,739 | #10 | 13.5 |
| 1883 | 1,589 | #9 | 14.1 |
| 1882 | 1,492 | #10 | 13.8 |
| 1881 | 1,326 | #8 | 14.4 |
| 1880 | 1,258 | #11 | 13.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annie has been given almost only to girls: 1,927 boys in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Annie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annie, and how old are they?
109,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 30% of the 362,180 Americans ever recorded as Annie. The median Annie alive today is 64 years old; half are between 27 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 115,909 people named Annie (115,660 women and girls, 249 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 124,283 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 23,200 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33,300 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 12,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,900 |
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 Annie born?
The states with the most babies named Annie are Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 36,093 | #125 | 3.9× |
| Alabama | 34,924 | #52 | 4.5× |
| North Carolina | 32,359 | #136 | 3.2× |
| Mississippi | 26,848 | #56 | 4.7× |
| South Carolina | 21,831 | #146 | 3.6× |
| Texas | 21,182 | #169 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 12,598 | #100 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 11,833 | #204 | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 11,584 | #70 | 1.9× |
| Florida | 9,983 | #333 | 1.6× |
Where Annie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 4.7 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 Annie 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 1,618,208 babies since 1880, Annie is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,690 of their 4,892 babies (35%), 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 Annie
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 Annie and names like it
- Compare Annie and AnnaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sAnnie peaked in 1922.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annie since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Annie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Annie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.