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Ane

Girls' name

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Anne

Ane has been given to 290 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Ane, 2019

1 in 579,000

Ane over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ane: meaning, origin, and history

Grace, gracious, graced with child, through Anne

English and French

What Ane means

Ane belongs to the name family reached through Ane → Anne → Anna → Ann → Ann. Its meaning is “grace, gracious, graced with child”.

Origin, language, and formation

Ane is used in Danish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian and Walloon. Its origins include English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Anne, Ana, Hanna, Anna and Ann.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Ane is pronounced /ˈɐ̃.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 290 girls were recorded with the name Ane between 1915 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1960; its best national rank was #3,924 in 1960.

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 Ane?

Ane had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 280,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ane 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ane was born before 1992 — so the typical Ane is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
268
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Ane 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (11)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,924
1960

Ane around the world

Where Ane 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
    2005–2019
    #4,001
    in 2019
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #152
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1966–1966
    #658
    in 1966

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ane by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,924
1960
Peak year
1960
11 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
290
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ane

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

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Sibling names for Ane

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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