In 2025, 10 US girls were named Annetta, making it the 9,512th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,985 places from #15,497 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 5 girls named Annetta in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #389, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 183, in 1941. For comparison, it was #16,672 in 2015 and #833 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Annetta in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 18 babies. In all, 8,814 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1,389 babies named Annetta.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 75 US girls were named Annetta; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anna (917,615 babies since 1880), Ann (471,625 babies since 1880), Anne (325,954 babies since 1880) and Annette (169,795 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Annetha 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.