Annette
The girl's name Annette has been in the national records since 1880, with 169,795 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,443rd. About 121,000 Annettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Annette boys named Annette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 169,795
- Estimated living today
- 121,000
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 62nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,443rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 169,296 / 499
How old the living Annettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 169,795 babies given the name since 1880, about 121,000 are alive — 72 in every hundred. Roughly 3,500 of them are children and 50,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 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 French
From French Annette, diminutive of Anne, from Ἄννα, the Ancient Greek New Testament form of the Hebrew female name חַנָּה (“grace, gracious”) with the French suffix <nowiki/>'ette' meaning cute, adorable or little. So, Annette could mean "Little favor of God", "cute grace" or "little Anne".
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Annettes
- Annette Bening (born 1958)American actress
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848)German composer and writer
- Annette O'Toole (born 1952)American actress
- Annette Kellermann (1886–1975)Australian swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress and writer
- Annette Funicello (1942–2013)American actress and singer
- Annette Schavan (born 1955)German politician
- Annette Rogers (1913–2006)athletics competitor
- Annette Lu (born 1944)Vice President of Taiwan
People named Annette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Annette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Annette is most concentrated in New Mexico (1.6×), Maine (1.6×), Utah (1.5×), Hawaii (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Annette peaked:
Annette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Annette | 33,555 | 82nd |
| Norway girls | Annette | 2,431 | 68th |
| New Zealand girls | Annette | 2,348 | 40th |
| Ireland girls | Annette | 2,065 | 71st |
| Scotland girls | Annette | 300 | 150th |
| England and Wales girls | Annette | 193 | 944th |
| Belgium girls | Annette | 57 | 863rd |
| Poland girls | Annette | 5 birth registrations | 363rd |
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.
Annette: rank by region
In 2023, Annette was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Annette | 660 | 7 |
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.
Annette 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 | Annette | 6,266 | 10,598 |
| Finland girls | Annette | 613 | 1,482 |
| the Netherlands boys | Annette | — | 123 |
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 Annette lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 357 women called Annette 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Annette | 42 | 0.067 | 1,046 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Annette | 56 | 0.054 | 1,258 |
| Palmas, Las | Annette | 24 | 0.041 | 1,990 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Annette | 20 | 0.036 | 1,970 |
| Málaga | Annette | 33 | 0.036 | 1,448 |
| Gipuzkoa | Annette | 13 | 0.035 | 1,514 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 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
Annette 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.