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Anna

Girls' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~446,600 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#107 among girls
Births in 2025
2,521 917,615 since 1880
Typical age
34 years, median

Anna popularity over time

Anna rank by birth year, 1880–2025Anna ranked #2 in 1880 and #107 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #2, in 1880.#10#100#107best #2 in 188018901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Anna was used most in 1918, when 15,697 babies were given the name. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 135 years put Anna in the top 100.

As of 2025 the name sits at #107, with 2,521 births that year. Over ten years the count has fallen 51%.

Babies named Anna per yearPeaks at 15,697 births in 1918.15,697 in 1918018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Anna?

An estimated 446,600 living Americans are called Anna. SSA has recorded 917,615 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Anna?

The typical living Anna is 34 years old. The 2000s produced the largest surviving cohort. By the site’s era rules that makes Anna a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Anna

Ages of living people named AnnaHalf of living Annas are older than 34 and half younger.median 34020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Anna is most common

Anna is 2.6× as common in Vermont as it is nationally. District of Columbia, Mississippi and New Hampshire follow.

Where Anna is used more than average5 states use the name Anna more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: 2.6× the national rateVTNew Hampshire: 2.1× the national rateNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: not over-representedNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: not over-representedPANew Jersey: not over-representedNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: not over-representedMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: 2.4× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: 2.1× the national rateMSAlabama: 2.0× the national rateALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Anna is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Vermont 63 2.6×
District of Columbia 153 2.4×
Mississippi 478 2.1×
New Hampshire 171 2.1×
Alabama 855 2.0×

Anna in England and Wales

ONS recorded 347 births named Anna in 2025, ranking it #142. That is 40% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Anna comes from

From Late Latin Anna both directly and via numerous other languages, chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anne the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (“Hannah”), from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). As a city in Illinois, named for Anna Davie, wife of one of the initial settlers. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Ana, Hannah.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Anna

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Anna Netrebko Russian and Austrian operatic soprano 1971 168
Anna Akhmatova Russian poet 1889–1966 131
Anna Politkovskaya Russian journalist 1958–2006 95
Anna Pavlova Russian ballet dancer 1882–1931 84
Anna Kournikova Russian tennis player and model 1981 83
Anna Maria Jopek Polish musician and singer 1970 81
Anna of Russia fourth Emperor of Russia from 1730 to 1740 1693–1740 76
Anna Kendrick American actress 1985 75
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People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Anna

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

Same feel, less common

The same matches, limited to names given at most half as often as Anna was in 2025.

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