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Annabelle vs Annali

American parents have registered 67,553 Annabelles since 1880, against 547 Annalis. Annabelle is still ahead, with 891 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Annabelle Annali

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 1990, when Annabelle had 73 and Annali had 5.

Side by side

  Annabelle Annali
Total US births 67,553547
Most in one year 4,36332
Babies in 2025 89120
Estimated living today 54,000540
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20142018
Best rank 57th girls4,357th girls
Rank in 2025 343rd5,917th
First recorded 18801989
Girls / boys 67,543 / 10547 / 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.

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