Ann
Ann reached its high-water mark in 1957 at number 44, and has been recorded 471,625 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,076th. About 257,000 Anns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ann boys named Ann
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 471,625
- Estimated living today
- 257,000
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 44th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,076th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 470,261 / 1,364
How old the living Anns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 471,625 babies given the name since 1880, about 257,000 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 4,700 of them are children and 139,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Latin Anna chiefly in reference to St Anne the apocryphal mother of Mary mother of Jesus but appearing in the Vulgate in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Koine Greek Ἄννα (“Anna”) in the New Testament, from Hebrew חַנָּה (“Hannah”), from חַנָּה (“grace, gracious, graced with child”). Occasionally reborrowed from languages who adopted the name from English.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Anns
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)English author and pioneer of the Gothic novel
- Ann Coulter (born 1961)American author, political commentator
- Ann Blyth (1927–2026)American actress
- Penelope Ann Miller (born 1964)American actress
- Deborah Ann Woll (born 1985)American actress
- Ann Sheridan (1915–1967)American actress
- Ann Rutherford (1917–2012)Canadian-American actress
- Ann Linde (born 1961)Swedish politician
People named Ann with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ann is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ann is most concentrated in Rhode Island (2.3×), Massachusetts (2.3×), Connecticut (1.9×), Vermont (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular girls’ names the year Ann peaked:
Ann elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland girls | Ann | 13,004 | 4th |
| Norway girls | Ann | 12,832 | 10th |
| New Zealand girls | Ann | 1,834 | 39th |
| Scotland girls | Ann | 1,441 | 54th |
| England and Wales girls | Ann | 879 | 539th |
| France girls | Ann | 590 | 879th |
| Belgium girls | Ann | 98 | 439th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Ann | 32 | 229th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ann: rank by region
In 2002, Ann was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ann | 634 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ann among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Ann | 255 | 2,968 |
| Finland girls | Ann | 604 | 1,203 |
| the Netherlands boys | Ann | — | 44 |
Among girls in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 2,968 who carry it, 255 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Ann lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 541 women called Ann were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alicante/Alacant | Ann | 157 | 0.153 | 572 |
| Almería | Ann | 43 | 0.114 | 726 |
| Málaga | Ann | 93 | 0.101 | 716 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Ann | 29 | 0.052 | 1,476 |
| Balears, Illes | Ann | 27 | 0.043 | 1,437 |
| Murcia | Ann | 34 | 0.043 | 1,204 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Ann against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.