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Anabel

#4,269 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Annabel

Anabel has been given to 9,815 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #4,269 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 297 recorded.

Babies named Anabel, 2025

1 in 100,000

Anabel over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anabel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Annabel

Latin

What Anabel means

Anabel is a form of Annabel.

Origin, language, and formation

Anabel is used in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annabel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Anabel is pronounced /a.naˈbɛw/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,780 girls were recorded with the name Anabel between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 297 in 2014; its best national rank was #636 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,717 in 2020 to #4,269 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,411 in 2015 to #4,269 in 2025.

In the United States, 35 boys were recorded with the name Anabel between 1982 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1989; its best national rank was #4,818 in 1989.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Anabel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,269
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anabel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anabel was born before 1997 — so the typical Anabel is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,886
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Choose a decade

2000s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (2,290).

Is Anabel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−690
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,552
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,858
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.1%
Peak was 2014 (297)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#636
1887

Spellings of Anabel

Anabel is not the most common spelling — Mabel is, with 32.5% against Anabel's 2.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Anabel is used

Across 2016–2025, Anabel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 19,155 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

29 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 25,000
  5. 5New York1 in 25,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 25,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Anabel around the world

Where Anabel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2015–2015
    #806
    in 2015
  • Ireland
    2004–2018
    #734
    in 2018
  • France
    1959–2023
    #6,355
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1956–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Anabel

People whose public names include Anabel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Anabel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Anabel. Linked forms have their own page here.

AnnaAnnitaAnabelaAnnabelAnabellaAnabelleAnnabellaAnnabelleAna Isabel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Anabel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,269
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,552
Best rank ever
#636
1887
Peak year
2014
297 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,780
Count in 2025
33

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,818
1989
Peak year
1989
10 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Anabel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AnaliaAnaisAnanyaAnayahAnaiahAnayaAnahiAnaiyaAnaleeAnaliseAnabelleAnalisaAnabellaAnayeliIzabelIsobelAnaliAnalyAnasiaAnnabelAnabiaAnalizAnaiyahAnaleah

Names with a curve like Anabel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Anabel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AliLeighaChristianaSarinaCherishFlorBreeFabiolaJanessaDamarisErynKendal

Sibling names for Anabel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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