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Anabela

#15,107 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Annabel

Anabela has been given to 529 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #15,107 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Anabela, 2025

1 in 663,000

Anabela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anabela: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Annabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anabela means

Anabela is a form of Annabel.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Anabela is used in Portuguese.

Origin, language, and formation

Anabela is used in Portuguese and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annabel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Anabela is pronounced /a.naˈbɛ.lɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 529 girls were recorded with the name Anabela between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,978 in 1973.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #13,567 in 2020 to #15,107 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,663 in 2015 to #15,107 in 2025.

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 Anabela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,107
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anabela 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anabela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anabelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anabela was born before 2007 — so the typical Anabela is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
529
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Choose a decade

2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Anabela 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
−5,498
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,540
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−9,444
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.22×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.6%
Peak was 2014 (32)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,978
1973

Spellings of Anabela

Anabela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 85.4% against Anabela's 0.07%.

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 Anabela is used

Across 1910–2025, Anabela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 671,392 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Connecticut1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —

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. Anabela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anabela around the world

Where Anabela 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
    2006–2023
    #2,504
    in 2023
  • France
    1966–2020
    #4,967
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    2007–2010
    #521
    in 2010

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

Anabela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,107
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,540
Best rank ever
#3,978
1973
Peak year
2014
32 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
529
Count in 2025
5

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