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Annabell

About 6,725 American babies have been named Annabell since 1882, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 4,000 Annabells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Annabell

By the numbers

Total US births
6,725
Estimated living today
4,000
Median age today
16
Peak year
2014
Best rank
923rd
Rank in 2025
5,722nd
First recorded
1882

How old the living Annabells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 6,725 babies given the name since 1882, about 4,000 are alive — 60 in every hundred. Roughly 2,300 of them are children and 460 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 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 Latin

Rare variant of Annabel.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Annabell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Annabell is most concentrated in South Carolina (2.5×), West Virginia (2.2×), Missouri (2.1×), Oklahoma (2.0×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2014

The most popular girls’ names the year Annabell peaked:

All the names of 2014

Annabell elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Annabell 436 909th
Ireland girls Annabell 29 660th
Poland girls Annabell 19 birth registrations 405th
Scotland girls Annabell 3 508th

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.

Annabell by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 49 144th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Annabell 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
Finland girls Annabell 12 35

A count of people on a register – 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.

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Annabell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.