Anne
Anne is a girl's name that peaked in 1959, when it was the 82nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 619th. About 189,000 Annes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Anne boys named Anne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 325,954
- Estimated living today
- 189,000
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1959
- Best rank
- 82nd
- Rank in 2025
- 619th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 325,128 / 826
How old the living Annes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 325,954 babies given the name since 1880, about 189,000 are alive — 58 in every hundred. Roughly 9,400 of them are children and 76,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
From French Anne (“Ann”), from 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Annes
- Anne Frank (1929–1945)German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim
- Anne of Great Britain (1665–1714)Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714
- Anne Bancroft (1931–2005)American actress
- Anne, Princess Royal (born 1950)daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
- Saint Anne (54 BC–12)mother of Virgin Mary in Christian and Islamic traditions; unnamed in the New Testament or Quran
- Anne Rice (1941–2021)American author
- Anne Baxter (1923–1985)American actress
- Anne of Cleves (1515–1557)Queen consort of England
People named Anne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anne is most concentrated in Massachusetts (2.7×), the District of Columbia (2.4×), Connecticut (2.1×), Rhode Island (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1959
The most popular girls’ names the year Anne peaked:
Anne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Anne | 363,700 | 15th |
| Norway girls | Anne | 56,487 | 1st |
| Ireland girls | Anne | 12,264 | 4th |
| Denmark girls | Anne | 10,684 | 7th |
| New Zealand girls | Anne | 3,879 | 13th |
| Scotland girls | Anne | 2,205 | 44th |
| England and Wales girls | Anne | 1,130 | 432nd |
| Belgium girls | Anne | 918 | 133rd |
| Switzerland girls | Anne | 343 | 211th |
| France boys | Anne | 310 | 401st |
| Northern Ireland girls | Anne | 48 | 238th |
| Poland girls | Anne | 15 birth registrations | 438th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Anne: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Anne | 238 | 0.019% | 172nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Anne | 103 | 0.024% | 135th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Anne | 2 | 0.003% | 152nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Anne is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.03% of children were given it – 30 of them.
Anne: rank by region
In 2024, Anne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Anne | 742 | 6 |
In 2023, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Anne appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (124th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Anne by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 12 | 351st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Anne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Anne | 30,341 | 57,363 |
| Finland girls | Anne +1 spelling | 29,746 | 34,410 |
| the Netherlands boys | Anne | 8,293 | 16,919 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Anne lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 3,267 women called Anne were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarra | Anne | 559 | 1.620 | 129 |
| Araba/Álava | Anne | 237 | 1.366 | 156 |
| Bizkaia | Anne | 646 | 1.073 | 184 |
| Gipuzkoa | Anne | 385 | 1.027 | 179 |
| Rioja, La | Anne | 59 | 0.356 | 326 |
| Burgos | Anne | 49 | 0.270 | 386 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Anne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.