Meaning not yet researched.
Anibal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #911 in 1976.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #911 in 1976; #3,128 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anibal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,128 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1976, at #911.
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Anibal: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #911 in 1976 · most boys in one year: 92 (1990).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Anibal, making it the 3,128th most common boys’ name of the year, up 272 places from #3,400 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 34 boys named Anibal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #911, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 92, in 1990. For comparison, it was #2,969 in 2015 and #2,211 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anibal in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 5 babies. In all, 3,950 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 661 babies named Anibal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 370 US boys were named Anibal; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anabel (9,815 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Hannibal and Annibale are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Hannibal (784), Annibale (5).
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 Anibal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 38 | #3,128 |
| 2024 | — | — | 34 | #3,400 |
| 2023 | — | — | 43 | #2,899 |
| 2022 | — | — | 40 | #3,058 |
| 2021 | — | — | 29 | #3,742 |
| 2020 | — | — | 32 | #3,424 |
| 2019 | — | — | 42 | #2,902 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,896 |
| 2017 | — | — | 44 | #2,758 |
| 2016 | — | — | 41 | #2,886 |
| 2015 | — | — | 39 | #2,969 |
| 2014 | — | — | 36 | #3,093 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,130 |
| 2012 | — | — | 41 | #2,870 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,952 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,310 |
| 2009 | — | — | 62 | #2,168 |
| 2008 | — | — | 47 | #2,636 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,606 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,968 |
| 2005 | — | — | 21 | #4,202 |
| 2004 | — | — | 40 | #2,645 |
| 2003 | — | — | 40 | #2,547 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,506 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,307 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,089 |
| 1999 | — | — | 40 | #2,265 |
| 1998 | — | — | 47 | #2,013 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,025 |
| 1996 | — | — | 75 | #1,400 |
| 1995 | — | — | 62 | #1,527 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,578 | 60 | #1,545 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,571 | 75 | #1,313 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,553 | 75 | #1,301 |
| 1991 | — | — | 74 | #1,308 |
| 1990 | — | — | 92 | #1,117 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,282 |
| 1988 | — | — | 79 | #1,124 |
| 1987 | — | — | 61 | #1,248 |
| 1986 | — | — | 69 | #1,136 |
| 1985 | — | — | 66 | #1,148 |
| 1984 | — | — | 50 | #1,324 |
| 1983 | — | — | 77 | #1,006 |
| 1982 | — | — | 58 | #1,219 |
| 1981 | — | — | 61 | #1,177 |
| 1980 | — | — | 44 | #1,432 |
| 1979 | — | — | 47 | #1,352 |
| 1978 | — | — | 55 | #1,203 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,714 | 60 | #1,121 |
| 1976 | — | — | 83 | #911 |
| 1975 | — | — | 64 | #1,029 |
| 1974 | — | — | 65 | #1,019 |
| 1973 | — | — | 56 | #1,082 |
| 1972 | — | — | 59 | #1,050 |
| 1971 | — | — | 60 | #1,047 |
| 1970 | — | — | 59 | #1,064 |
| 1969 | — | — | 59 | #1,000 |
| 1968 | — | — | 50 | #1,047 |
| 1967 | — | — | 53 | #992 |
| 1966 | — | — | 54 | #991 |
| 1965 | — | — | 52 | #1,020 |
| 1964 | — | — | 52 | #1,045 |
| 1963 | — | — | 51 | #1,069 |
| 1962 | — | — | 42 | #1,204 |
| 1961 | — | — | 62 | #980 |
| 1960 | — | — | 37 | #1,296 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,034 |
| 1958 | — | — | 45 | #1,148 |
| 1957 | — | — | 41 | #1,214 |
| 1956 | — | — | 35 | #1,298 |
| 1955 | — | — | 30 | #1,397 |
| 1954 | — | — | 25 | #1,527 |
| 1953 | — | — | 20 | #1,712 |
| 1952 | — | — | 20 | #1,704 |
| 1951 | — | — | 20 | #1,685 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,211 |
| 1949 | — | — | 10 | #2,459 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,016 |
| 1947 | — | — | 8 | #2,871 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,699 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,241 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,226 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,149 |
| 1937 | — | — | 9 | #2,484 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,566 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,802 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,784 |
| 1930 | — | — | 9 | #2,785 |
| 1929 | — | — | 6 | #3,572 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,176 |
| 1927 | — | — | 10 | #2,707 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #3,718 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,599 |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #3,834 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,546 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,350 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,221 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,122 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,846 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,280 |
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).