Girl

Annelise

Meaning not yet researched.

2025 rank
#1,072
226 girls
2015
#1,197
rank
1950
—
not ranked

Annelise: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 226 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,072 in 2025.

US births per year · SSA card applications

Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Annelise in 2025 was a girl.

Baby name · US data 1880–2025

#1,072 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.

Babies in 2025
226
Since 1880
6,523
Years on record
68

Babies named Annelise, every year since 1880

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Girls

Annelise: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 226 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,072 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 226 (2025).

About the name Annelise

In 2025, 226 US girls were named Annelise, making it the 1,072nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 235 places from #1,307 in 2024. That is 50 more than the 176 girls named Annelise in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,072, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 226. For comparison, it was #1,197 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.

Social Security card records list Annelise in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1930 with 5 babies. In all, 6,523 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,029 babies named Annelise.

Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,756 US girls were named Annelise; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 226. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,112 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.

Among the states, Annelise ranked highest in Iowa in 2025, at #502 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Annalise (17,165 babies since 1880), Anneliese (5,943 babies since 1880), Annaliese (4,944 babies since 1880) and Analise (4,592 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anelis, Anelisse and Annelies are summarised on this page.

Meaning

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.

Related spellings

Rare spellings summarised here: Anelis (195), Anelisse (174), Annelies (168), Aneliese (140), Anneliz (31), Anyelis (20), Anelyse (19), Annelys (16), Anneliesse (14), Annelouise (10).

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.

Nicknames

No nicknames listed for Annelise in the open dataset we use.

Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).

Annelise by state, 2025

US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 34 are not listed.

StateBirths 2025Rank 2025Rank 2015
Iowa6#502—
Pennsylvania12#764#826
Illinois11#804#1,306
Ohio11#812#903
Missouri6#822#965
Alabama5#829—
Massachusetts5#884—
Washington6#930#773
Virginia7#950—
Texas30#952#1,473
Florida16#963#1,493
California28#971#1,146
New Jersey6#1,052—
Georgia8#1,086#1,179
Michigan5#1,231—
North Carolina6#1,290#1,407
New York7#1,671#1,299

Rank by year

Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.

CSV
YearGirlsGirls rankBoysBoys rank
2025226#1,072——
2024176#1,307——
2023149#1,471——
2022140#1,531——
2021149#1,442——
2020153#1,422——
2019183#1,267——
2018176#1,292——
2017205#1,191——
2016199#1,229——
2015209#1,197——
2014217#1,147——
2013219#1,111——
2012216#1,138——
2011225#1,091——
2010180#1,307——
2009192#1,267——
2008190#1,309——
2007213#1,189——
2006204#1,188——
2005217#1,097——
2004165#1,295——
2003169#1,242——
2002153#1,282——
2001144#1,331——
2000125#1,473——
1999105#1,597——
1998132#1,330——
1997148#1,214——
1996118#1,400——
199598#1,550——
1994112#1,425——
1993109#1,460——
1992103#1,524——
199198#1,565——
199083#1,755——
198977#1,751——
198864#1,912——
198750#2,158——
198642#2,386——
198540#2,443——
198429#2,994——
198322#3,558——
198227#3,182——
198121#3,746——
198016#4,523——
197916#4,432——
197813#4,949——
197714#4,674——
197613#4,637——
197510#5,543——
197412#4,737——
197313#4,374——
197214#4,096——
197111#4,823——
197017#3,590——
19695#7,525——
196813#3,797——
19678#5,003——
196616#3,151——
196510#4,211——
19648#5,015——
196310#4,279——
19617#5,326——
19597#5,051——
19568#4,476——
19475#5,337——
19305#4,579——

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).