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Annalicia vs Annette

American parents have registered 169,795 Annettes since 1880, against 852 Annalicias. Annette is still ahead, with 149 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Annalicia against Annette, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Annalicia Annette

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

Annette 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 2015, when Annalicia had 31 and Annette had 177.

Side by side

  Annalicia Annette
Total US births 852169,795
Most in one year 407,158
Babies in 2025 7149
Estimated living today 840121,000
Median age today 1862
Peak year 20071960
Best rank 3,918th girls62nd girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd1,443rd
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 852 / 0169,296 / 499

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 Annettes alive today are over 62; half the Annalicias are over 18. That is 44 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 Annette.