Annabel

What Annabel means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Annabel yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #621 in 2015, #2,064 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Annabel?

US: Falling: down from #621 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #154 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 716 girls got the name (#447 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 17,662 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,128 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 2,236 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in IL (0.16 per 1,000 girls), NY (0.1 per 1,000 girls), CA (0.07 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Annabel is #2064 in the US and #361 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Annabel were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Annabelle891 US · 337 E&W
• Anabel33 US · 6 E&W
• Annabell21 US · 4 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Annabel

Girls

• Julianna#398Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #190 in 2015, #398 in 2025
• Juliana#256Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #256 vs #1,892 in 2025
• Mya#443Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #146 in 2015, #443 in 2025
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilian#560possibly “lily”^*

For a brother

• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Dominic#106Editor’s note Down from #68 in 2015 to #106 in 2025 in the US
• Max#180Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025
• Gabriel#37Finnish, meaning “God is my strong man, God is my hero”^*
• Fabian#468“belonging to Fabius”^*
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Annabel’s. Rank is US 2025.