Humanverse

Annabelle vs Annagrace

American parents have registered 67,553 Annabelles since 1880, against 799 Annagraces. Annabelle is still ahead, with 891 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Annabelle against Annagrace, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Annabelle Annagrace

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Annabelle has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Annabelle had 597 and Annagrace had 31.

Side by side

  Annabelle Annagrace
Total US births 67,553799
Most in one year 4,36340
Babies in 2025 89113
Estimated living today 54,000790
Median age today 1314
Peak year 20142007
Best rank 57th girls3,918th girls
Rank in 2025 343rd7,885th
First recorded 18801994
Girls / boys 67,543 / 10799 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Annabelle and Annagrace.