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Annalicia vs Anne

American parents have registered 325,954 Annes since 1880, against 852 Annalicias. Anne is still ahead, with 472 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Annalicia against Anne, 1880 to 2025 0 1.5k 3k 4.5k 6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Annalicia Anne

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

Anne 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 2007, when Annalicia had 40 and Anne had 608.

Side by side

  Annalicia Anne
Total US births 852325,954
Most in one year 405,755
Babies in 2025 7472
Estimated living today 840189,000
Median age today 1861
Peak year 20071959
Best rank 3,918th girls82nd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd619th
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 852 / 0325,128 / 826

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Annes alive today are over 61; half the Annalicias are over 18. That is 43 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Annalicia and Anne.