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Anabelle

#2,960 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Annabel

Anabelle has been given to 8,919 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #2,960 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 686 recorded.

Babies named Anabelle, 2025

1 in 59,200

Anabelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anabelle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Annabel

Latin

What Anabelle means

Anabelle is a variant of Annabel.

Origin, language, and formation

Anabelle is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annabel and Annabelle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,919 girls were recorded with the name Anabelle between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 686 in 2014; its best national rank was #460 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,793 in 2020 to #2,960 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #736 in 2015 to #2,960 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 Anabelle?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,960
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anabelle 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anabelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anabelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anabelle was born before 2010 — so the typical Anabelle is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
8,821
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2010s — 51.7% of all recorded uses (4,607).

Is Anabelle 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
−183
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,167
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,224
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.15×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.2%
Peak was 2014 (686)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#460
2013

Spellings of Anabelle

Anabelle is not the most common spelling — Isabelle is, with 40.4% against Anabelle's 3.3%.

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 Anabelle is used

Across 2016–2025, Anabelle was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 11,640 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,263
  2. 2California1 in 6,667
  3. 3Washington1 in 9,091
  4. 4Arizona1 in 10,000
  5. 5New York1 in 11,111
  6. 6Texas1 in 11,111
  7. 7Georgia1 in 14,286
  8. 8Massachusetts1 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.

Anabelle around the world

Where Anabelle 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2015
    #653
    in 2015
  • Northern Ireland
    2014–2014
    #439
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2008–2020
    #700
    in 2020
  • France
    1953–2025
    #3,999
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,191
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #328
    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 Anabelle

People whose public names include Anabelle, 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.

Anabelle in other languages

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

AnabelAnabelaAnnabelAnabellaAnnabellaAnnabelle

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

Anabelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,960
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,167
Best rank ever
#460
2013
Peak year
2014
686 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,919
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Anabelle

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

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Names with a curve like Anabelle

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

AryannaAudrinaCayleeBrileyJaelynnAddisynJaylynnJocelynnMariyahKenleyAubriannaMadalynn

Sibling names for Anabelle

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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