Annah
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1888 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,942since 1888
Annah over time
Rank among girls' names. Annah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 |
| 2023 | #6,922 | 16 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 |
| 2020 | #6,923 | 16 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 |
| 2016 | #4,250 | 34 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #4,887 | 28 |
| 2012 | #3,782 | 41 |
| 2011 | #3,659 | 42 |
| 2010 | #3,889 | 39 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #3,420 | 48 |
| 2007 | #3,289 | 51 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 |
| 2005 | #2,969 | 54 |
| 2004 | #2,998 | 52 |
| 2003 | #2,923 | 52 |
| 2002 | #2,497 | 63 |
| 2001 | #2,331 | 68 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #2,675 | 52 |
| 1998 | #2,279 | 62 |
| 1997 | #2,590 | 49 |
| 1996 | #2,423 | 53 |
| 1995 | #2,977 | 39 |
| 1994 | #2,465 | 51 |
| 1993 | #2,825 | 42 |
| 1992 | #2,869 | 41 |
| 1991 | #3,443 | 31 |
| 1990 | #2,900 | 39 |
| 1989 | #3,165 | 33 |
| 1988 | #2,597 | 41 |
| 1987 | #2,572 | 39 |
| 1986 | #3,459 | 25 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #3,613 | 22 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | — | |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | — | |
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| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
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| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,497 | 7 |
| 1930 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 |
| 1925 | #3,362 | 9 |
| 1924 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 |
| 1921 | #3,666 | 8 |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 |
| 1919 | — | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #2,658 | 11 |
| 1915 | — | |
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| 1909 | #2,208 | 5 |
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| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 |
| 1898 | — | |
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| 1895 | — | |
| 1894 | #1,353 | 6 |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 |
| 1892 | — | |
| 1891 | #1,332 | 5 |
| 1890 | — | |
| 1889 | — | |
| 1888 | #1,276 | 5 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | — | |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | — | |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Annah! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1893, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Annah is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Wisconsin#690 · 1 in 4,175
- Michigan#1,246 · 1 in 9,471
- North Carolina#1,265 · 1 in 9,080
Best ever in a state: #460 in Mississippi, 1990.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #690 | 6 | 1 in 4,175 |
| Michigan | #1,246 | 5 | 1 in 9,471 |
| North Carolina | #1,265 | 5 | 1 in 9,080 |
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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 Annah
- 444 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #6,838)
- 85 spots since 2020 (#6,923 → #6,838)
- 2,923 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #6,838)
- Debuted 1888
- Peaked 1888 at #1,276 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1889, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,480 girls born in 2001 were named Annah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,276 in 1888, was only 1 in 35,724 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.9% of all girls named Annah (542) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | #1,276 (1888) | #1,276 |
| 1890s | 21 | #1,332 (1891) | #1,430 |
| 1900s | 5 | #2,208 (1909) | #2,208 |
| 1910s | 22 | #2,658 (1916) | #3,850 |
| 1920s | 56 | #3,340 (1920) | #4,006 |
| 1930s | 22 | #3,497 (1931) | #4,038 |
| 1940s | 6 | #3,863 (1940) | #3,863 |
| 1950s | 15 | #5,301 (1950) | #5,833 |
| 1960s | 5 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,564 |
| 1970s | 71 | #4,079 (1978) | #6,757 |
| 1980s | 271 | #2,572 (1987) | #3,376 |
| 1990s | 459 | #2,279 (1998) | #2,745 |
| 2000s | 542 | #2,331 (2001) | #3,012 |
| 2010s | 330 | #3,659 (2011) | #4,444 |
| 2020s | 112 | #5,172 (2022) | #6,333 |
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.
Annah in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 34,219 of them was named Annah, which outranked 84.5% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,935Yanely55
- #2,935Zamya55
- #2,935Zayra55
- #2,969Annah54
- #2,969Alaura54
- #2,969Alisson54
- #2,969Ashia54
- #3,009Agatha53
- #3,009Alexzandra53
- #3,009Amarah53
Tied with 39 names at #2,969; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.