Annabelle

What Annabelle means

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

Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #92 in 2015, #343 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Annabelle?

US: Falling: down from #92 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #60 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 4,363 girls got the name (#57 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,804 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 752 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 813 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 AK (4.84 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.57 per 1,000 girls), NH (1.58 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Annabelle is #343 in the US and #149 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 Annabelle 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

• Annabel91 US · 119 E&W
• Anabelle56 US · 8 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 Annabelle

Girls

• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Lilly#252Form of Lilian, possibly meaning “lily”^*
• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Livia#819Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Dominic#106Editor’s note Down from #68 in 2015 to #106 in 2025 in the US
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*
• Adrian#74“from the Roman harbor Hadria”^*
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Max#180Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #48 vs #180 in 2025

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 Annabelle’s. Rank is US 2025.