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Annabel

#2,065 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Amabel

Annabel has been given to 14,974 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,065 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 716 recorded.

Babies named Annabel, 2025

1 in 36,400

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annabel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Amabel

Latin

What Annabel means

Annabel is a variant of Amabel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Annabel → Amabel. The family’s meaning is “lovable”, recorded in English with the source elements amabilis.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Originally a mishearing or misreading of Latin amabilis (“lovable”) (= Amabel, Mabel), used since the 12th century and by folk etymology interpreted as Anna + belle, "beautiful Anna".

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

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Origin, language, and formation

Annabel is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Annabel comes through Latin amabilis.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Amabel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Annabel is pronounced /ˈænəbɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 14,974 girls were recorded with the name Annabel between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 716 in 2014; its best national rank was #447 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,215 in 2020 to #2,065 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #621 in 2015 to #2,065 in 2025.

How common is Annabel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 17,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,065
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annabel 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 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annabel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annabels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annabel was born before 2004 — so the typical Annabel is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,674
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.1% of all recorded uses (4,657).

Is Annabel 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
−466
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−850
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,444
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.20×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
12.7%
Peak was 2014 (716)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#447
2014

Spellings of Annabel

Annabel is not the most common spelling — Annabelle is, with 52.8% against Annabel's 11.7%.

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 Annabel is used

Across 2016–2025, Annabel was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 3,448 girls, against 1 in 7,749 across all states with data. It was least common in Louisiana (1 in 33,333).

329 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 3,448
  2. 2New York1 in 4,348
  3. 3Virginia1 in 4,545
  4. 4Colorado1 in 5,556
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 5,556
  6. 6District of Columbia1 in 5,556
  7. 7Maryland1 in 5,556
  8. 8Illinois1 in 7,143

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.

Annabel around the world

Where Annabel 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
    #361
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2025
    #387
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2022
    #305
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    1973–2025
    #544
    in 2025
  • France
    1950–2025
    #5,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #97
    in 2013
  • New South Wales
    2012–2012
    #100
    in 2012

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, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Annabel

People whose public names include Annabel, 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.

Annabel in other languages

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

AnabelAnabelaAnabellaAnabelleAnnabellAnnabellaAnnabelle

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

Annabel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,065
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 850
Best rank ever
#447
2014
Peak year
2014
716 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
14,974
Count in 2025
91

Names similar to Annabel

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

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Names with a curve like Annabel

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

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Sibling names for Annabel

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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