Anne

What Anne means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anne?

US: Steady: #565 in 2015, #619 now. England & Wales: Steady: #1204 in 2015, #1110 now.

Biggest US share so far: 1914, when 3,365 girls got the name (#53 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 3,405 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,443 baby girls in England and Wales 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 DC (4.46 per 1,000 girls), AL (1.8 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

Anne is #619 in the US and #1110 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 Anne 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

• Ann225 US · 14 E&W
• Aine39 US · 17 E&W
• An36 US · 15 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 Anne

Girls

• Lisa#987“Locally Integrated Software Architecture”^*
• Deborah#862“bee”^*
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Mary#125Same root as Miriam, possibly meaning “bitter”^*
• Marie#617Editor’s note Down from #560 in 2015 to #617 in 2025 in the US
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*

For a brother

• Dustin#728possibly “Thor s stone”^*
• James#6“May He Heel”^*
• John#23possibly “God is gracious”^*
• Jon#951Variant of John, possibly meaning “God is gracious”^*
• Roger#832“fame-spear”^*
• Albert#614“noble + bright, famous”^*

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