Anniston

Where Anniston comes from

The city in Alabama, originally Woodstock, was renamed by town officials in 1873 (after realizing there was another village named Woodstock in central Alabama) in honor of Annie Eliza Scott Tyler (1838–1914), daughter-in-law of Daniel Tyler, one of the two organizers of the Woodstock Iron Company, which started the then planned community. Equivalent to Annie + -s- + -ton (“Annie’s town”). The name of the city in Missouri was changed in 1894—a transfer from the city in Alabama.
— Wiktionary's entry for Anniston
  • 3 syllables
Anniston through the years
  1. 1996
    First appearance
    #10,567 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #898
    302 babies named Anniston, the most in any year.
  3. 2022
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,490.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Anniston in Wikidata.

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.