Annah
#6,864 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Annah has been given to 1,942 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #6,864 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 68 recorded.
Babies named Annah, 2025
1 in 207,000
Annah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Annah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 207,000
- 16 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 100,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,864
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 143,620 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Annah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Annahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Annah was born before 2000 — so the typical Annah is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,805
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (542).
Is Annah 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
- −446
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +89
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,941
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.42×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.5%
- Peak was 2001 (68)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Annah
Annah is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 30.4% against Annah's 0.06%.
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 Annah is used
Across 1910–2025, Annah was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 516,144 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3California1 in —
- 4Georgia1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Indiana1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Minnesota1 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. Annah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Annah around the world
Where Annah 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 & Wales1997–2024#5,892in 2024
- France1989–2025#1,335in 2025
- Canada2001–2022#3,322in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Annah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Annah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Annah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.