Meaning not yet researched.
Anabelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #460 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #460 in 2013; #2,960 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anabelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,960 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #460.
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Anabelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #460 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 686 (2014).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Anabelle, making it the 2,960th most common girls’ name of the year, down 183 places from #2,777 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 61 girls named Anabelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #460, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 686, in 2014. For comparison, it was #736 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anabelle in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 9 babies. In all, 8,919 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,607 babies named Anabelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,455 US girls were named Anabelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 350. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anabelle ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,750 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Annabelle (67,553 babies since 1880), Annabella (15,007 babies since 1880), Annabel (14,974 babies since 1880) and Anabel (9,815 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Anabelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 12 | #1,750 | #502 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,906 | #437 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,960 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,777 | — | — |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 2022 | 74 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 2021 | 102 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 2019 | 163 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 2018 | 199 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 2017 | 271 | #969 | — | — |
| 2016 | 350 | #818 | — | — |
| 2015 | 383 | #736 | — | — |
| 2014 | 686 | #465 | — | — |
| 2013 | 664 | #460 | — | — |
| 2012 | 634 | #485 | — | — |
| 2011 | 625 | #473 | — | — |
| 2010 | 632 | #477 | — | — |
| 2009 | 543 | #561 | — | — |
| 2008 | 420 | #710 | — | — |
| 2007 | 396 | #734 | — | — |
| 2006 | 363 | #756 | — | — |
| 2005 | 283 | #891 | — | — |
| 2004 | 225 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2003 | 228 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2002 | 195 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2001 | 166 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1999 | 113 | #1,515 | — | — |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,774 | — | — |
| 1997 | 48 | #2,624 | — | — |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,240 | — | — |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,020 | — | — |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,782 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,855 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,621 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,631 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,092 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,320 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,550 | — | — |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,783 | — | — |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,580 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,667 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,065 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,791 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,469 | — | — |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,317 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,502 | — | — |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,434 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,840 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,021 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,276 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,544 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #6,598 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,409 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,640 | — | — |
| 1958 | 7 | #4,904 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,337 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,177 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,583 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,015 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,595 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,048 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,136 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,525 | — | — |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,271 | — | — |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,909 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).