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Anette

#8,405 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Annette

Anette has been given to 2,728 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #8,405 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 113 recorded.

Babies named Anette, 2025

1 in 276,000

Anette over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Anette: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Annette

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Anette means

Anette is a variant of Annette.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Anette → Annette. The family’s meaning is “grace, gracious”, recorded in English with the source elements ḥannâ.

Origin, language, and formation

Anette is used in Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Annette.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Finnish, Anette is pronounced /ˈɑnetːe/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,728 girls were recorded with the name Anette between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 113 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,421 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,013 in 2020 to #8,405 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,747 in 2015 to #8,405 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 Anette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,405
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Anette 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Anette was born before 1991 — so the typical Anette is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,550
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (782).

Is Anette 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
−2,218
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−392
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,658
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.6%
Peak was 2003 (113)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,421
1965

Spellings of Anette

Anette is not the most common spelling — Annette is, with 24.3% against Anette's 0.39%.

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 Anette is used

Across 1910–2025, Anette was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 72,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Texas1 in 33,333
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Anette has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Anette around the world

Where Anette 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
    2011–2016
    #5,785
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    1969–1976
    #429
    in 1976
  • France
    1903–2017
    #6,529
    in 2017
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #478
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–1975
    #675
    in 1975

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

Notable people named Anette

People whose public names include Anette, 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.

Anette in other languages

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

AnaAnnAnjaAnnaAnyaHanaAnetaAnettGannaHannaNetteAnettaAnnettHannahAnnettaAnnetteArnetteAnaïsAneteAnetheAnnaigAgnette

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

Anette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,405
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 392
Best rank ever
#1,421
1965
Peak year
2003
113 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,728
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Anette

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

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Names with a curve like Anette

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

TamyraLeslyeLesliMyriamBronwynPeriSindyDenniseAnnamariaBrigidDelanaPilar

Sibling names for Anette

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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