Meaning not yet researched.
Ann: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 225 in 2025. Its best rank was #28 in 1936.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #28 in 1936; #1,076 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ann in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,076 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1936, at #28.
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Ann: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 225 girls in 2025. Peak: #28 in 1936 · most girls in one year: 9,040 (1957).
In 2025, 225 US girls were named Ann, making it the 1,076th most common girls’ name of the year, up 59 places from #1,135 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 213 girls named Ann in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #28, reached in 1936. The most girls given the name in a single year was 9,040, in 1957. For comparison, it was #898 in 2015 and #45 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ann in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 131 babies with the name. In all, 471,625 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 87,228 babies named Ann.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,396 US girls were named Ann; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 269. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,143 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ann ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #164 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Anne (325,954 babies since 1880), Annette (169,795 babies since 1880) and Ana (111,960 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ahan, Aune and Aeon are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Annie and Nan.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ahan (335), Aune (312), Aeon (250), Ayn (146), Ayen (109), Ayon (90), Ain (28), Aun (27), Aoun (27), Aion (20), Aian (17), Ayin (15), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 35 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 15 | #164 | #164 |
| Alabama | 25 | #177 | #176 |
| South Carolina | 9 | #523 | #318 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #535 | #465 |
| Virginia | 13 | #575 | #623 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #752 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #859 | #693 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #883 | #632 |
| Missouri | 5 | #944 | #682 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,050 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,051 | #1,065 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,150 | #765 |
| New York | 11 | #1,239 | #860 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,334 | #1,124 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,806 | #1,314 |
| California | 10 | #1,963 | #1,171 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 225 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 2024 | 213 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 2023 | 231 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 2021 | 224 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 2020 | 221 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 2019 | 264 | #979 | — | — |
| 2018 | 269 | #982 | — | — |
| 2017 | 257 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2016 | 265 | #996 | — | — |
| 2015 | 307 | #898 | — | — |
| 2014 | 286 | #946 | — | — |
| 2013 | 280 | #912 | — | — |
| 2012 | 268 | #949 | — | — |
| 2011 | 256 | #992 | — | — |
| 2010 | 286 | #913 | — | — |
| 2009 | 287 | #930 | — | — |
| 2008 | 344 | #826 | — | — |
| 2007 | 368 | #782 | — | — |
| 2006 | 388 | #723 | — | — |
| 2005 | 435 | #640 | — | — |
| 2004 | 402 | #685 | 6 | #10,026 |
| 2003 | 499 | #552 | — | — |
| 2002 | 525 | #521 | — | — |
| 2001 | 506 | #529 | — | — |
| 2000 | 546 | #493 | — | — |
| 1999 | 583 | #456 | — | — |
| 1998 | 555 | #464 | — | — |
| 1997 | 626 | #415 | — | — |
| 1996 | 663 | #400 | — | — |
| 1995 | 743 | #354 | — | — |
| 1994 | 784 | #341 | — | — |
| 1993 | 848 | #314 | — | — |
| 1992 | 946 | #295 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,025 | #268 | — | — |
| 1990 | 1,124 | #250 | — | — |
| 1989 | 1,089 | #246 | 8 | #5,649 |
| 1988 | 1,171 | #222 | 6 | #6,464 |
| 1987 | 1,204 | #221 | — | — |
| 1986 | 1,303 | #199 | 8 | #4,870 |
| 1985 | 1,443 | #187 | — | — |
| 1984 | 1,695 | #160 | 6 | #5,597 |
| 1983 | 1,812 | #157 | 12 | #3,420 |
| 1982 | 1,920 | #155 | 9 | #4,248 |
| 1981 | 2,123 | #133 | 11 | #3,614 |
| 1980 | 2,168 | #136 | 7 | #4,960 |
| 1979 | 2,266 | #126 | 10 | #3,819 |
| 1978 | 2,320 | #125 | 9 | #3,871 |
| 1977 | 2,452 | #118 | 8 | #4,188 |
| 1976 | 2,436 | #108 | 14 | #2,828 |
| 1975 | 2,715 | #104 | 11 | #3,256 |
| 1974 | 2,928 | #100 | 11 | #3,128 |
| 1973 | 3,255 | #93 | 13 | #2,720 |
| 1972 | 3,360 | #91 | 15 | #2,427 |
| 1971 | 4,558 | #78 | 20 | #2,054 |
| 1970 | 5,740 | #62 | 25 | #1,744 |
| 1969 | 6,133 | #57 | 16 | #2,133 |
| 1968 | 6,177 | #54 | 10 | #2,738 |
| 1967 | 6,247 | #57 | 25 | #1,540 |
| 1966 | 5,993 | #61 | 20 | #1,726 |
| 1965 | 6,784 | #59 | 27 | #1,485 |
| 1964 | 7,758 | #60 | 24 | #1,616 |
| 1963 | 7,975 | #57 | 19 | #1,839 |
| 1962 | 8,123 | #56 | 20 | #1,806 |
| 1961 | 8,216 | #54 | 22 | #1,734 |
| 1960 | 8,677 | #51 | 25 | #1,620 |
| 1959 | 8,918 | #44 | 13 | #2,300 |
| 1958 | 8,856 | #47 | 23 | #1,644 |
| 1957 | 9,040 | #44 | 28 | #1,488 |
| 1956 | 8,990 | #46 | 19 | #1,824 |
| 1955 | 8,916 | #43 | 23 | #1,611 |
| 1954 | 8,751 | #44 | 18 | #1,828 |
| 1953 | 8,579 | #46 | 16 | #1,960 |
| 1952 | 8,653 | #45 | 18 | #1,807 |
| 1951 | 8,423 | #46 | 13 | #2,141 |
| 1950 | 7,921 | #45 | 10 | #2,441 |
| 1949 | 7,870 | #44 | 15 | #1,943 |
| 1948 | 8,025 | #44 | 19 | #1,705 |
| 1947 | 8,894 | #41 | 20 | #1,698 |
| 1946 | 8,077 | #40 | 12 | #2,150 |
| 1945 | 7,038 | #39 | 22 | #1,407 |
| 1944 | 7,081 | #39 | 19 | #1,578 |
| 1943 | 7,829 | #37 | 23 | #1,463 |
| 1942 | 7,666 | #38 | 41 | #1,055 |
| 1941 | 7,121 | #37 | 22 | #1,447 |
| 1940 | 7,196 | #35 | 23 | #1,399 |
| 1939 | 6,551 | #33 | 23 | #1,391 |
| 1938 | 6,990 | #32 | 30 | #1,200 |
| 1937 | 6,713 | #30 | 28 | #1,265 |
| 1936 | 6,666 | #28 | 34 | #1,118 |
| 1935 | 6,706 | #30 | 27 | #1,295 |
| 1934 | 6,641 | #32 | 25 | #1,358 |
| 1933 | 6,209 | #34 | 19 | #1,590 |
| 1932 | 6,195 | #34 | 20 | #1,588 |
| 1931 | 5,858 | #35 | 19 | #1,643 |
| 1930 | 5,531 | #41 | 26 | #1,429 |
| 1929 | 5,172 | #46 | 18 | #1,793 |
| 1928 | 4,932 | #54 | 24 | #1,523 |
| 1927 | 4,782 | #59 | 14 | #2,205 |
| 1926 | 4,779 | #55 | 5 | #4,234 |
| 1925 | 4,935 | #52 | 23 | #1,586 |
| 1924 | 5,035 | #55 | 14 | #2,236 |
| 1923 | 5,022 | #52 | 12 | #2,456 |
| 1922 | 5,054 | #49 | 21 | #1,698 |
| 1921 | 5,058 | #53 | 19 | #1,833 |
| 1920 | 5,041 | #49 | 15 | #2,138 |
| 1919 | 4,924 | #49 | 8 | #3,123 |
| 1918 | 5,613 | #44 | 13 | #2,263 |
| 1917 | 5,455 | #44 | 14 | #2,095 |
| 1916 | 5,343 | #40 | 12 | #2,266 |
| 1915 | 4,895 | #43 | 12 | #2,188 |
| 1914 | 3,888 | #40 | 9 | #2,277 |
| 1913 | 2,998 | #46 | 7 | #2,285 |
| 1912 | 2,666 | #47 | 9 | #1,755 |
| 1911 | 1,882 | #53 | 11 | #1,038 |
| 1910 | 1,842 | #52 | 12 | #931 |
| 1909 | 1,477 | #56 | 5 | #1,455 |
| 1908 | 1,354 | #62 | 5 | #1,379 |
| 1907 | 1,264 | #62 | 6 | #1,201 |
| 1906 | 1,064 | #70 | 5 | #1,259 |
| 1905 | 996 | #75 | 6 | #1,094 |
| 1904 | 880 | #78 | — | — |
| 1903 | 774 | #84 | — | — |
| 1902 | 753 | #83 | — | — |
| 1901 | 634 | #89 | — | — |
| 1900 | 736 | #92 | — | — |
| 1899 | 586 | #92 | — | — |
| 1898 | 593 | #101 | — | — |
| 1897 | 545 | #97 | — | — |
| 1896 | 488 | #105 | — | — |
| 1895 | 551 | #97 | — | — |
| 1894 | 470 | #105 | — | — |
| 1893 | 397 | #110 | — | — |
| 1892 | 393 | #115 | — | — |
| 1891 | 337 | #117 | — | — |
| 1890 | 328 | #121 | — | — |
| 1889 | 341 | #112 | — | — |
| 1888 | 295 | #123 | — | — |
| 1887 | 239 | #124 | — | — |
| 1886 | 229 | #124 | — | — |
| 1885 | 208 | #124 | — | — |
| 1884 | 214 | #118 | — | — |
| 1883 | 167 | #124 | — | — |
| 1882 | 150 | #125 | — | — |
| 1881 | 130 | #123 | — | — |
| 1880 | 131 | #122 | — | — |
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).