Annabella

Where Annabella comes from

The dictionaries list Annabella as a given name — a female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel and Annabelle — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,979 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1943
    Annabella Incontrera born
    Italian actress
  3. 1960
    Annabella Sciorra born
    American actress
  4. 2014
    Peak, #256
    1,280 babies named Annabella — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #590.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, variant of Annabel and Annabelle.
Namesakes
  • Annabella Sciorra · American actress, born 1960
  • Annabella Incontrera · Italian actress, 1943–2004
  • Annabella Stropparo · Italian cyclist, born 1968
  • Annabella Piugattuk · Canadian actress, born 1982
  • Annabella of Scotland · Scottish princess; youngest child of James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort, 1430–1509

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.