In 2025, 891 US girls were named Annabelle, making it the 343rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #348 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 897 girls named Annabelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #57, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,363. For comparison, it was #92 in 2015 and #890 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Annabelle in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 9 babies with the name. In all, 67,553 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 28,956 babies named Annabelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 15,486 US girls were named Annabelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,001. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,804 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Annabelle ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #72 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Annabella (15,007 babies since 1880), Annabel (14,974 babies since 1880), Anabel (9,815 babies since 1880) and Anabelle (8,919 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anabela, Annebelle and Annibelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.