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Anabella

#2,258 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Annabel

Anabella has been given to 6,768 babies in the U.S. since 1960. In 2025 it ranked #2,258 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 585 recorded.

Babies named Anabella, 2025

1 in 40,900

Anabella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anabella: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Annabel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anabella means

Anabella is a variant of Annabel.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Rare spelling variant of Annabella, the Latinate form of Annabel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Anabella (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Anabella is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annabel and Annabella.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,768 girls were recorded with the name Anabella between 1960 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 585 in 2014; its best national rank was #529 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,412 in 2020 to #2,258 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #863 in 2015 to #2,258 in 2025.

How common is Anabella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 40,900
81 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 19,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,258
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
28,370 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anabella 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 28,370 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anabella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anabellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anabella was born before 2012 — so the typical Anabella is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,768
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2010s — 56.8% of all recorded uses (3,847).

Is Anabella 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
+26
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−846
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,395
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.25×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
13.8%
Peak was 2014 (585)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#529
2014

Spellings of Anabella

Anabella is not the most common spelling — Isabella is, with 68.5% against Anabella's 1.1%.

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 Anabella is used

Across 2016–2025, Anabella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 2,439 girls, against 1 in 8,789 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

241 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 2,439
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,882
  3. 3California1 in 7,143
  4. 4Texas1 in 8,333
  5. 5New York1 in 10,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 12,500
  7. 7Nevada1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 14,286

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.

Anabella around the world

Where Anabella 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
    2002–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2019
    #650
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2021–2021
    #446
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2011–2011
    #798
    in 2011
  • France
    1960–2022
    #6,735
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2003–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Anabella

People whose public names include Anabella, 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.

Anabella in other languages

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

AnabelAnabelaAnnabelAmabellaAnabelleArabellaAnnabellaAnnabelle

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

Anabella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,258
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 846
Best rank ever
#529
2014
Peak year
2014
585 that year
First recorded
1960
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,768
Count in 2025
81

Names similar to Anabella

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

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Names with a curve like Anabella

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

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Sibling names for Anabella

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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