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Anne vs Annmarie

American parents have registered 325,954 Annes since 1880, against 19,003 Annmaries. Anne is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anne against Annmarie, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anne Annmarie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Anne has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2010, when Anne had 484 and Annmarie had 129.

Side by side

  Anne Annmarie
Total US births 325,95419,003
Most in one year 5,755652
Babies in 2025 47264
Estimated living today 189,00017,000
Median age today 6151
Peak year 19591969
Best rank 82nd girls356th girls
Rank in 2025 619th2,691st
First recorded 18801915
Girls / boys 325,128 / 82619,003 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Annes alive today are over 61; half the Annmaries are over 51. That is 10 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Anne Annmarie
Ireland 12,264201
Scotland 2,205231
England and Wales 1,130163

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Anne and Annmarie.