Anabelle
#2,957 for girls in 2025, 56 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 664 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 8,919since 1915
Anabelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Anabelle has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,957 | 56 |
| 2024 | #2,775 | 61 |
| 2023 | #2,555 | 69 |
| 2022 | #2,445 | 74 |
| 2021 | #1,926 | 102 |
| 2020 | #1,792 | 110 |
| 2019 | #1,377 | 163 |
| 2018 | #1,197 | 199 |
| 2017 | #969 | 271 |
| 2016 | #818 | 350 |
| 2015 | #736 | 383 |
| 2014 | #465 | 686 |
| 2013 | #459 | 664 |
| 2012 | #484 | 634 |
| 2011 | #473 | 625 |
| 2010 | #477 | 632 |
| 2009 | #561 | 543 |
| 2008 | #710 | 420 |
| 2007 | #734 | 396 |
| 2006 | #756 | 363 |
| 2005 | #891 | 283 |
| 2004 | #1,034 | 225 |
| 2003 | #1,013 | 228 |
| 2002 | #1,090 | 195 |
| 2001 | #1,218 | 166 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 |
| 1999 | #1,515 | 113 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 |
| 1997 | #2,622 | 48 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 |
| 1995 | #2,486 | 51 |
| 1994 | #4,016 | 26 |
| 1993 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 |
| 1989 | #4,248 | 22 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 |
| 1987 | #5,613 | 13 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #3,066 | 28 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #3,777 | 20 |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,776 | 9 |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
| 1969 | #4,418 | 11 |
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| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #6,009 | 6 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 |
| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
| 1959 | #4,625 | 8 |
| 1958 | #4,890 | 7 |
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| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
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| 1928 | #3,164 | 9 |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
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| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 |
| 1923 | #2,587 | 13 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 |
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| 1918 | #3,512 | 8 |
| 1917 | #3,713 | 7 |
| 1916 | #3,258 | 8 |
| 1915 | #2,900 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Anabelle! It came in at #2,900, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Anabelle is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#510 · 1 in 2,330
- Florida#511 · 1 in 2,550
- Massachusetts#559 · 1 in 2,831
- Nevada#561 · 1 in 2,232
- New York#577 · 1 in 2,995
Best ever in a state: #157 in Rhode Island, 2013.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #510 | 10 | 1 in 2,330 |
| Florida | #511 | 34 | 1 in 2,550 |
| Massachusetts | #559 | 9 | 1 in 2,831 |
| Nevada | #561 | 5 | 1 in 2,232 |
| New York | #577 | 30 | 1 in 2,995 |
| Missouri | #603 | 9 | 1 in 3,014 |
| Michigan | #660 | 12 | 1 in 3,506 |
| California | #674 | 53 | 1 in 3,844 |
| Georgia | #702 | 14 | 1 in 3,432 |
| Kentucky | #721 | 5 | 1 in 3,652 |
| Pennsylvania | #725 | 13 | 1 in 3,989 |
| South Carolina | #733 | 5 | 1 in 3,572 |
| Arizona | #774 | 8 | 1 in 3,868 |
| Colorado | #790 | 6 | 1 in 3,927 |
| Washington | #793 | 8 | 1 in 4,018 |
| Indiana | #821 | 7 | 1 in 4,328 |
| Minnesota | #873 | 5 | 1 in 4,908 |
| Maryland | #894 | 5 | 1 in 4,808 |
| Texas | #894 | 32 | 1 in 5,228 |
| Ohio | #952 | 9 | 1 in 5,785 |
| Illinois | #990 | 10 | 1 in 5,763 |
| Virginia | #1,036 | 6 | 1 in 6,190 |
| Tennessee | #1,087 | 5 | 1 in 6,208 |
| New Jersey | #1,168 | 5 | 1 in 7,315 |
| North Carolina | #1,215 | 6 | 1 in 7,552 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anabelle
- 182 spots since 2024 (#2,775 → #2,957)
- 1,165 spots since 2020 (#1,792 → #2,957)
- 2,221 spots since 2015 (#736 → #2,957)
- Biggest jump: 149 spots in 2009 (#710 → #561)
- Biggest drop: 271 spots in 2015 (#465 → #736)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2013 at #459 (664 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 13 yrs · run 2005–2017
- Highest: 1 in 2,604 girls born in 2014 were named Anabelle (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 28,701 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #459 in 2013, was only 1 in 2,643 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 51.7% of all girls named Anabelle (4,607) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 32 | #2,900 (1915) | #3,346 |
| 1920s | 66 | #2,587 (1923) | #3,727 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 21 | #4,625 (1959) | #4,947 |
| 1960s | 54 | #4,272 (1963) | #5,289 |
| 1970s | 109 | #3,777 (1979) | #5,133 |
| 1980s | 160 | #3,066 (1981) | #5,002 |
| 1990s | 451 | #1,515 (1999) | #3,369 |
| 2000s | 2,947 | #561 (2009) | #944 |
| 2010s | 4,607 | #459 (2013) | #746 |
| 2020s | 472 | #1,792 (2020) | #2,408 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anabelle in 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
More about 2016
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1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 5,063 of them was named Anabelle, which outranked 95.7% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).