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Anne

Girls' name · Mid-century perennial

Living in the US
~194,400 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#619 among girls
Births in 2025
472 325,954 since 1880
Typical age
61 years, median

Anne popularity over time

Anne rank by birth year, 1880–2025Anne ranked #120 in 1880 and #619 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #52, in 1915.#100#619best #52 in 191518901920195019802010
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.

More children were named Anne in 1959 than in any other year — 5,755 of them. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Anne has spent 66 years inside the national top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #619 with 472 births. It climbed 28 places against the previous year.

Babies named Anne per yearPeaks at 5,755 births in 1959.5,755 in 1959018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Anne?

Roughly 194,400 Annes are alive in the US right now. That is out of 325,954 recorded births 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 Anne?

Median age among living Annes: 61. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Anne a mid-century perennial name.

Your Anne

Ages of living people named AnneHalf of living Annes are older than 61 and half younger.median 61020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Anne is most common

Relative to births, Alabama carries 4.8× the national share of Annes. District of Columbia, Mississippi and Massachusetts follow.

Where Anne is used more than average5 states use the name Anne more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: 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: 2.0× the national rateVAMaryland: not over-representedMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 2.3× the national rateMAArizona: 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: 3.8× the national rateDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: 3.7× the national rateMSAlabama: 4.8× 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 Anne is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Alabama 293 4.8×
District of Columbia 35 3.8×
Mississippi 121 3.7×
Massachusetts 176 2.3×
Virginia 217 2.0×

Anne in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Anne ranked #1,110 in 2025 on 30 births.

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

Where the name Anne comes from

From French Anne (“Ann”), from Late Latin Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (“Hannah”), from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English. Very infrequently from Estonian abbreviation of Anna instead. Doublet of Ann, Ana, Anna, Hannah. Compare John.

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

Notable people named Anne

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Anne Frank German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim 1929–1945 168
Anne Hathaway American actress 1982 113
Anne Brontë British novelist and poet 1820–1849 106
Anne Boleyn second wife of Henry VIII of England (died 1536) 1501–1536 105
Anne Bancroft American actress 1931–2005 84
Anne Baxter American actress 1923–1985 68
Anne of Cleves Queen consort of England 1515–1557 64
Anne of Kiev French Queen, middle daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kyiv and Novgorod 1025–1070 62
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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.

How Anne is usually spelled

Spellings within one or two letters of each other, and how 2025 births divided between them.
SpellingBirths in 2025Share
Anne this page 472 68%
Ann 225 32%

Names similar to Anne

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 Anne was in 2025.

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