Meaning not yet researched.
Annie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,690 in 2025. Its best rank was #8 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8 in 1881; #182 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Annie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#182 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #8.
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Annie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,690 girls in 2025. Peak: #8 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 7,476 (1922).
In 2025, 1,690 US girls were named Annie, making it the 182nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 10 places from #192 in 2024. That is 120 more than the 1,570 girls named Annie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,476, in 1922. For comparison, it was #323 in 2015 and #106 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Annie in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 1,264 babies with the name. In all, 362,180 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 69,902 babies named Annie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,993 US girls were named Annie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,690. In 2025 that was about 1 in 951 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Annie ranked highest in Alabama in 2025, at #52 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 9 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Anne (325,954 babies since 1880), Ania (3,315 babies since 1880), Ani (3,188 babies since 1880) and Anyia (895 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Anny, Annia and Ane are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ann and Anna.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, French, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Anny (1,512), Annia (757), Ane (290), Anniah (279), Anniya (238), Anie (236), Anyae (210), Anyi (157), Ahni (128), Anye (124), Annye (103), Aania (63), 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 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 63 | #52 | #219 |
| Mississippi | 33 | #56 | #297 |
| Louisiana | 50 | #70 | #254 |
| Kentucky | 47 | #84 | #263 |
| Idaho | 22 | #89 | #196 |
| Arkansas | 28 | #96 | #270 |
| Maine | 10 | #98 | — |
| Tennessee | 72 | #100 | #214 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #100 | — |
| Utah | 40 | #105 | #104 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | #107 | #525 |
| Georgia | 77 | #125 | #342 |
| North Carolina | 73 | #136 | #337 |
| Ohio | 79 | #137 | #295 |
| Kansas | 23 | #137 | #364 |
| Minnesota | 38 | #143 | #308 |
| South Carolina | 31 | #146 | #344 |
| Nebraska | 15 | #149 | #317 |
| North Dakota | 6 | #163 | #114 |
| Iowa | 19 | #165 | #361 |
| Texas | 193 | #169 | #381 |
| Missouri | 36 | #172 | #361 |
| Indiana | 40 | #172 | #401 |
| Pennsylvania | 64 | #174 | #278 |
| West Virginia | 9 | #182 | — |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #186 | #163 |
| Illinois | 53 | #192 | #390 |
| Wisconsin | 28 | #196 | #372 |
| Virginia | 40 | #204 | #344 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | #208 | — |
| Connecticut | 15 | #223 | #255 |
| Oregon | 16 | #225 | #280 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #247 | #245 |
| Washington | 29 | #247 | #285 |
| New Jersey | 32 | #253 | #456 |
| Maryland | 20 | #254 | #421 |
| Colorado | 25 | #257 | #257 |
| New York | 62 | #267 | #321 |
| Michigan | 30 | #294 | #500 |
| Florida | 54 | #333 | #592 |
| Nevada | 8 | #336 | #287 |
| California | 91 | #360 | #322 |
| Arizona | 17 | #393 | #292 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,690 | #182 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,570 | #192 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,484 | #202 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,417 | #205 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,307 | #230 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,103 | #289 | 5 | #12,157 |
| 2019 | 1,108 | #298 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,091 | #307 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,092 | #298 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,131 | #286 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,010 | #323 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,058 | #313 | — | — |
| 2013 | 905 | #353 | — | — |
| 2012 | 835 | #375 | — | — |
| 2011 | 824 | #384 | — | — |
| 2010 | 813 | #392 | — | — |
| 2009 | 858 | #380 | — | — |
| 2008 | 824 | #392 | — | — |
| 2007 | 784 | #419 | — | — |
| 2006 | 813 | #394 | — | — |
| 2005 | 839 | #376 | — | — |
| 2004 | 817 | #382 | — | — |
| 2003 | 924 | #337 | — | — |
| 2002 | 977 | #313 | — | — |
| 2001 | 983 | #317 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,042 | #306 | — | — |
| 1999 | 986 | #313 | — | — |
| 1998 | 921 | #324 | — | — |
| 1997 | 927 | #317 | — | — |
| 1996 | 999 | #289 | — | — |
| 1995 | 928 | #297 | — | — |
| 1994 | 803 | #332 | — | — |
| 1993 | 762 | #339 | — | — |
| 1992 | 730 | #353 | — | — |
| 1991 | 736 | #351 | 6 | #7,318 |
| 1990 | 822 | #333 | — | — |
| 1989 | 742 | #344 | 5 | #7,971 |
| 1988 | 721 | #341 | 5 | #7,340 |
| 1987 | 659 | #360 | 8 | #4,992 |
| 1986 | 719 | #336 | — | — |
| 1985 | 831 | #296 | 5 | #6,577 |
| 1984 | 794 | #300 | 8 | #4,572 |
| 1983 | 806 | #292 | — | — |
| 1982 | 1,016 | #246 | 6 | #5,663 |
| 1981 | 973 | #253 | 6 | #5,518 |
| 1980 | 1,001 | #258 | — | — |
| 1979 | 910 | #269 | — | — |
| 1978 | 662 | #332 | — | — |
| 1977 | 541 | #388 | — | — |
| 1976 | 464 | #430 | — | — |
| 1975 | 487 | #413 | — | — |
| 1974 | 464 | #421 | — | — |
| 1973 | 464 | #421 | 5 | #5,134 |
| 1972 | 438 | #438 | — | — |
| 1971 | 489 | #428 | — | — |
| 1970 | 499 | #441 | — | — |
| 1969 | 571 | #397 | — | — |
| 1968 | 611 | #365 | — | — |
| 1967 | 690 | #334 | — | — |
| 1966 | 736 | #325 | 6 | #3,548 |
| 1965 | 815 | #316 | 5 | #3,948 |
| 1964 | 1,034 | #282 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,120 | #264 | — | — |
| 1962 | 1,299 | #245 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 1961 | 1,298 | #241 | 7 | #3,366 |
| 1960 | 1,478 | #221 | 8 | #3,090 |
| 1959 | 1,588 | #208 | 19 | #1,866 |
| 1958 | 1,723 | #196 | 14 | #2,178 |
| 1957 | 1,832 | #193 | 11 | #2,499 |
| 1956 | 2,116 | #171 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1955 | 2,220 | #160 | 13 | #2,219 |
| 1954 | 2,409 | #150 | 6 | #3,464 |
| 1953 | 2,563 | #143 | 15 | #2,045 |
| 1952 | 2,838 | #127 | 22 | #1,616 |
| 1951 | 3,062 | #113 | 18 | #1,778 |
| 1950 | 3,331 | #106 | 13 | #2,115 |
| 1949 | 3,453 | #103 | 13 | #2,127 |
| 1948 | 3,721 | #97 | 21 | #1,613 |
| 1947 | 3,758 | #103 | 18 | #1,787 |
| 1946 | 3,651 | #97 | 20 | #1,604 |
| 1945 | 3,741 | #69 | 26 | #1,297 |
| 1944 | 3,738 | #71 | 17 | #1,684 |
| 1943 | 4,070 | #69 | 21 | #1,532 |
| 1942 | 4,293 | #62 | 39 | #1,092 |
| 1941 | 4,073 | #59 | 33 | #1,152 |
| 1940 | 4,216 | #56 | 34 | #1,138 |
| 1939 | 4,155 | #54 | 31 | #1,171 |
| 1938 | 4,562 | #47 | 31 | #1,173 |
| 1937 | 4,479 | #46 | 48 | #896 |
| 1936 | 4,529 | #45 | 36 | #1,069 |
| 1935 | 4,849 | #38 | 50 | #894 |
| 1934 | 5,018 | #38 | 48 | #909 |
| 1933 | 5,123 | #37 | 38 | #1,051 |
| 1932 | 5,385 | #41 | 52 | #888 |
| 1931 | 5,090 | #41 | 49 | #922 |
| 1930 | 5,756 | #40 | 50 | #959 |
| 1929 | 5,955 | #37 | 47 | #984 |
| 1928 | 6,329 | #37 | 55 | #902 |
| 1927 | 6,562 | #36 | 60 | #873 |
| 1926 | 6,877 | #34 | 42 | #1,092 |
| 1925 | 7,350 | #32 | 43 | #1,053 |
| 1924 | 7,347 | #32 | 41 | #1,117 |
| 1923 | 7,095 | #34 | 30 | #1,323 |
| 1922 | 7,476 | #30 | 37 | #1,181 |
| 1921 | 7,209 | #36 | 41 | #1,102 |
| 1920 | 7,268 | #35 | 38 | #1,158 |
| 1919 | 7,146 | #35 | 33 | #1,232 |
| 1918 | 6,743 | #36 | 39 | #1,094 |
| 1917 | 6,404 | #35 | 29 | #1,267 |
| 1916 | 6,105 | #36 | 34 | #1,120 |
| 1915 | 5,936 | #36 | 30 | #1,183 |
| 1914 | 4,800 | #33 | 23 | #1,224 |
| 1913 | 4,267 | #30 | 25 | #997 |
| 1912 | 4,083 | #27 | 20 | #1,025 |
| 1911 | 3,298 | #24 | 10 | #1,120 |
| 1910 | 3,519 | #19 | 25 | #569 |
| 1909 | 2,904 | #22 | 17 | #656 |
| 1908 | 2,820 | #21 | 12 | #780 |
| 1907 | 2,891 | #19 | 15 | #665 |
| 1906 | 2,774 | #18 | 11 | #755 |
| 1905 | 2,793 | #17 | 19 | #528 |
| 1904 | 2,631 | #17 | 12 | #687 |
| 1903 | 2,551 | #17 | 13 | #622 |
| 1902 | 2,664 | #16 | 11 | #688 |
| 1901 | 2,396 | #16 | 17 | #466 |
| 1900 | 3,324 | #11 | 19 | #556 |
| 1899 | 2,289 | #18 | 11 | #616 |
| 1898 | 2,470 | #18 | 14 | #574 |
| 1897 | 2,307 | #20 | 5 | #1,067 |
| 1896 | 2,358 | #19 | 6 | #985 |
| 1895 | 2,390 | #19 | 15 | #530 |
| 1894 | 2,393 | #18 | 10 | #674 |
| 1893 | 2,251 | #17 | 10 | #653 |
| 1892 | 2,348 | #15 | 7 | #862 |
| 1891 | 2,096 | #13 | 5 | #977 |
| 1890 | 2,220 | #15 | 6 | #888 |
| 1889 | 2,123 | #13 | 14 | #501 |
| 1888 | 2,188 | #14 | 11 | #614 |
| 1887 | 1,844 | #12 | 13 | #490 |
| 1886 | 1,765 | #13 | 5 | #972 |
| 1885 | 1,703 | #10 | 9 | #644 |
| 1884 | 1,739 | #10 | — | — |
| 1883 | 1,589 | #9 | 8 | #679 |
| 1882 | 1,492 | #10 | 8 | #699 |
| 1881 | 1,326 | #8 | 5 | #871 |
| 1880 | 1,258 | #11 | 6 | #817 |
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).