Annis
Annis was last recorded in 2008, when 6 babies were given it; 2,921 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Annis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Annis?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,590, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
86 babies in 1917, the peak
Annis peaked in 1917, when 86 babies were given it (79 girls, #777 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #15,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,491 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,414 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,510 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,076 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,290 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,828 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 5 | #6,636 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,016 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #3,927 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,764 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,668 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 10 | #3,943 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,934 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 16 | #2,843 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,891 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 14 | #2,926 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,679 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,434 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 23 | #2,004 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,883 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,358 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 37 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,318 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,375 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 29 | #1,518 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 39 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 46 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 46 | #1,089 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 51 | #997 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,105 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 55 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 49 | #1,005 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 54 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,119 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 47 | #1,007 | 0.05 |
| 1933 | 44 | #1,051 | 0.04 |
| 1932 | 58 | #923 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 51 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 48 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,078 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 47 | #1,099 | 0.04 |
| 1927 | 65 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 61 | #958 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 62 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 54 | #1,059 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 62 | #929 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 53 | #1,032 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 74 | #857 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 82 | #797 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 69 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 77 | #815 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 79 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1916 | 58 | #887 | 0.06 |
| 1915 | 73 | #775 | 0.07 |
| 1914 | 47 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1913 | 38 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 50 | #709 | 0.09 |
| 1911 | 24 | #878 | 0.06 |
| 1910 | 33 | #738 | 0.08 |
| 1909 | 22 | #869 | 0.06 |
| 1908 | 25 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 22 | #794 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 30 | #662 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 24 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 27 | #668 | 0.10 |
| 1903 | 28 | #630 | 0.11 |
| 1902 | 25 | #668 | 0.09 |
| 1901 | 16 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 36 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1899 | 20 | #706 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 27 | #620 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 26 | #594 | 0.11 |
| 1896 | 20 | #707 | 0.08 |
| 1895 | 17 | #771 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 16 | #750 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 24 | #572 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 16 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1891 | 19 | #608 | 0.10 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,007 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 16 | #643 | 0.09 |
| 1888 | 16 | #639 | 0.09 |
| 1887 | 10 | #734 | 0.07 |
| 1886 | 13 | #635 | 0.09 |
| 1885 | 7 | #848 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 8 | #794 | 0.06 |
| 1883 | 13 | #541 | 0.12 |
| 1882 | 5 | #916 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 5 | #838 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 7 | #684 | 0.08 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Annis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Annis has been given almost only to girls: 7 boys in 94 years of records.
Girls and boys named Annis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Annis, and how old are they?
An estimated 605 Americans named Annis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 70 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,045 people named Annis (987 women and girls, 58 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 828 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Annis born?
The states with the most babies named Annis are Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas, with 45% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee | 106 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| North Carolina | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 65 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 54 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 45 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Arkansas | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Annis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Annis is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Annis 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 12,981 babies since 1880, Annis is the second most given (23% of them). In 2025 none of their 327 babies recorded by SSA was a Annis (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Annis
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 Annis and names like it
- Compare Annis and AnaisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAnnis peaked in 1917.
- Tennessee’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Annis since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Annis.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Annis alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.