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Annel

#15,143 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Annel has been given to 551 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #15,143 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 31 recorded.

Babies named Annel, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Annel: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Annel means

Annel is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Annel is used in Icelandic.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 551 girls were recorded with the name Annel between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 31 in 2004; its best national rank was #4,144 in 1998.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,654 in 2015 to #15,143 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 Annel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,143
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Annel 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Annel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Annels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Annel was born before 1997 — so the typical Annel is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
551
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Annel 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,489
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.1%
Peak was 2004 (31)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
48.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,144
1998

Spellings of Annel

Annel is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 28.6% against Annel's 0.02%.

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 Annel is used

Across 1910–2025, Annel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 156,322 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Annel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Annel by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,143
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,144
1998
Peak year
2004
31 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
551
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Annel

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

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Sibling names for Annel

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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