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Annalicia vs Annie

American parents have registered 362,180 Annies since 1880, against 852 Annalicias. Annie is still ahead, with 1,690 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Annalicia Annie

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

Annie 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 Annie had 784.

Side by side

  Annalicia Annie
Total US births 852362,180
Most in one year 407,513
Babies in 2025 71,690
Estimated living today 840112,000
Median age today 1864
Peak year 20071922
Best rank 3,918th girls30th girls
Rank in 2025 11,932nd182nd
First recorded 19831880
Girls / boys 852 / 0360,253 / 1,927

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 Annies alive today are over 64; half the Annalicias are over 18. That is 46 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 Annie.